Rev 3:22 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.
The man or woman who has no inner ear, no inner
silence, no inner place for hearing the Lord is never going to be of
much use in the service of the Lord, and mark you, it must be the Lord,
and we must be very careful that we do not give even good men and good
writers the place that the Lord ought to have.
There is a time when we
must sweep our books aside, when we must shut ourselves up from the
voices of men, when we must get quiet with the Lord and listen, and
more, we must seek to cultivate, by the grace of God, the ear that is
always open to the Lord even when all the other sounds are around us.
It
is difficult, yet not impossible, that in the raging of the street and
the rush of business life the Lord should say something; but He will
only speak to those who recognize the value of listening to the Lord and
who are giving Him His place of silence to speak when possible.
The ear
to hear the Lord when all other sounds and voices are around us is
prepared and trained in these times of detachment which the Lord
demands, and against which the devil is eternally active to capture the
ear again.
You and I know, never mind how
spiritually mature we are–the one object of the devil is to capture
our ear from God, to make it impossible for us to have the silent hour
and the silent ear for God.
The pressing in, and all the things which
happen just when you have decided to have a little quiet time; then it
is you have to fight for the ear – you know it is true.
Do you see there
is something bound up with that; the undoing of the work of the devil,
the registration of God's mind upon this universe, everything which is
meant by priestly ministry, which is bringing God in, is bound up with
this: God having the ear.
~T. Austin Sparks~
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