Listen, for I Have Worthy Things to Say

Day 16
I was listening to this song on the radio in my car on the way into the office this morning. I don’t know the name of the song or who sings it but there was a phrase in the song that really touched me. It said something about how we are always striving to be heard when we really should strive to listen. The truth of that statement immediately caught my attention.

We are constantly being bombarded with advertisers’ messages online, on the radio or TV or just about anything you pick up to look at or listen to. There are thousands of messages coming to us every day. Someone wants to be heard and they want you to be listening to them. They want you to hear their message and buy their product, support their cause or believe what they believe. And, so does God. But He doesn’t blast it out to us or use creative marketing techniques to try to reach us or trick us. He’s there steadily and consistently, day in and day out, never failing us, never going away, never turning His back. He wants to be heard but He wants us to hear Him for our own benefit. He wants to give us the guidance and wisdom that we so desperately need to navigate the world we live in. He wants us to strive to LISTEN much more than we strive to be heard. We don’t have to be concerned about whether or not He’s listening to us. He is. He just needs us to do the same for Him. Proverbs 8:6 very simply says, ‘Listen, for I have worthy things to say.’ Enough said. I’ll just listen now.