It’s so frustrating!
Don’t you hate it when you’re telling someone something and they’re not listening? The other day I was trying to tell a person about a pretty serious situation in my life when I noticed their eyes drift away. Their attention was on a person who had just walked in the room. They greeted the person and began to talk with them. It was becoming obvious that the person who had come in the room was way more important than what I had been saying. Then as if they had caught themselves, they glanced back my way and apologized, “Now what were you saying?” Never mind.
Needless to say, I won’t be too quick to engage that person in a serious conversation again. What’s scary though is that experiences like this, if you’re not careful, can start to make you doubt if anyone really listens, including God.
David wrote,
I waited and waited and waited for God. At last he looked; finally he listened. (Psalms 40:1, The Message)
It’s the speaking-then-nothing stuff that can be so tough
Check those first few words out: waiting, and waiting, and waiting. Though maybe we don’t doubt that God can hear, we begin to think that He may not be really interested in what we are saying. There’s other people and other things that are more important. And then there’s the whole, “maybe he’s mad at me” thing.
The unchangeable FACT is that God is listening to us. He never stops, forgets, or gets distracted. He may not respond in nanosecond, but rest assured He’s listening.
I love God because he listened to me! He has even inclined His ear toward me. (Psalms 116:1-2)
Those words say a lot about listening
That word “inclined” actually means to adjust one’s position and lean forward to gain a better position to hear and understand what’s being said. In other words, when you speak, God not only listens, but leans forward and adjusts himself so he can listen even better to you.
As much as we hate it when people don’t listen to us, we love it when they do. How much more special it is to know that God is listening to us!
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