Listen!

by: Ps Chris

Mark 7:16 "If any man have ears to hear, let him hear"

One of the most important thing in this life is how we listen because what we listen influence what we do. Another point is that there's never a day without listening.

Do you know the difference between hearing and listening?
Hear: hear something but forget its existence right away.
Listen: hear something often with attention. This is the most important!

If you listen wrongly, you'll do wrong stuff. You'll produce wrong reaction. For example, i was assigned a reading for a small quiz back in my bible college. But i memorized the wrong book of the bible and the consequences was i got my first and last zero in my entire school history.

Pay attention to what you listen because that determine what you'll do next.

James 1:19 " My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry"

The problem appear when we are too slow to listen and too quick to talk. Problem emerges when we spoke up before gathering enough data to back up our words.

Matthew 7:24-26 “Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash.”

This contrast the one who really listen and do God's word and another one who only appear to listen but in the end did not do God's word. Two same house, exact and precisely the same as each other. But what differentiates the two? The QUALITY. The quality which will be tested in its perseverence when problem arises.

Our quality is tested when the storm of life emerges and differentiates between the ones who really did listen to what has been said from the ones who just hear what was said and pass it on to the air.

What's the benefit of listening?
Isaiah 48:18 "If only you had paid attention to my commands, your peace would have been like a river, your righteousness like the waves of the sea."

1. Peace like a river
2. Righteousness like the waves of the sea

Endless righteousness and peace will be bestowed upon you if you listen carefully to God's command.