Welcome back to Heartstrings

What an awesome God we serve! While each day brings a new set of stepping stones, they lead us in Christ for He is The Way, The Truth and The Life. Praise the name of the LORD!

Have you ever experienced dizziness and imbalance? Physically this has been trouble for me for a long while. Only today, after a treatment do I feel better. God made our ears in an amazing way didn't He? After the peroxide treatment and letting that do its work of clearing I seem refreshed over all. 

Keeping balance can take a tremendous effort when things aren't right. There is a greater chance for falling. Stress is added because of the frustrations of not hearing the voices you want to hear. The embarrassment comes into play too, so might as well appear to hear. Guessing becomes a chore. Not a happy one. And not to mention the pain involved physically and emotionally.

My path, my prayers for healing took a turn I'd not expected. Praying for the Father's will to be done and exalting Him has been a challenge and of course, another lesson to be learned. I am so grateful for the comfort of the Holy Spirit.

Now, did you think I would leave you without the understanding in how my spirit has been revived? Of course not. The Bible speaks of hearing and shows how one hears with out spiritual ears.

I know you probably don't want an anatomy lesson but, my life and yours really is a classroom. Because God made us uniquely His, after His own image, we have all the elements to understand as we experience and grow in our faith in Christ. 

Hebrews 5:11 says, "Concerning this we have much to say which is hard to explain, since you have become dull in your [spiritual] hearing and sluggish [even slothful in achieving spiritual insight]."

While it is wise to read the scriptures surrounding this, do you see how descriptive God's love letter to you is? Everything becomes more work if we become dull in hearing and even sluggish so we don't want to even try to tell others the Good News! Hey, even the disciples were told to stay alert and pray they don't fall into temptation. They had no idea what Jesus was referring to. They didn't know He would be taken and hung on a cross in a very short time. There are temptations of many types in our world aren't there? Take a moment and consider yours.

John relates what Jesus said in John 12:47..."If anyone hears My teachings and fails to observe them [does not keep them, but disregards them], it is not I who judges him. For I have not come to judge and to condemn and to pass sentence and to inflict penalty on the world, but to save the world."

Are you saved through Jesus Christ today? If you take that step toward Him and repent of your sins and declare Him to be the Son of God, then I believe your hearing will become sharper. You will come to understand that you have been sealed by the Holy Spirit and begin to hear whispers in your heart that speak of the love of God for you. Your conscience will begin to respond differently to decisions you so easily gave into before. Those temptations will be seen for what they are. 

In John 18:37 Jesus is answering Pilate. He explains that everyone who is of the Truth, who is a friend of Truth and belong to the Truth hears and listens to His voice.

We choose you know. Will we hear or not? We can recognize a spirit of Truth and one of error because we are learning to perceive, recognize, and understand God by observation and experience, and get an ever clearer knowledge of Him. We learn to listen and pay attention and obey the Spirit of Truth dwelling in us.

Will we be able to hear when in the last of days? Revelation 22:17 says, "The [Holy] Spirit and the bride (the church, the true Christians) say, Come! And let him who is listening say, Come! And let everyone come who is thirsty [who is painful conscious of his need of those things by which the soul is refreshed, supported, and strengthened]; and whoever [earnestly] desires to do it, let him come, take, appropriate and drink the water of life without cost."

Oh I pray you will be a person with a desire to hear in a greater measure. I pray that for myself too! I want to hear the trumpet sound and the voice of Lord Jesus call my name. I want to hear His words that I have been faithful and to enter into His rest! I pray that each of us will desire to Know the Lord intimately. To really place Him on the throne of your heart today. Will you?

God be with you in the matchless name of Jesus Christ, our Redeemer. Amen.

Abundance is...hearing with clarity brings balance