Proverbs 8:34
Blessed are those who listen to me, watching daily at my doors, waiting at my doorway.
Notice how we are blessed if we watch and wait for Him daily at his doors. We may need to ask, “Do I seek Him daily at His doorway? Do I take time away from my busy schedule to seek Him? Let’s face it, time is a precious commodity. What do I spend it on?
But there is more than just idly waiting, we have to intentionally wait and do so with an ear tuned into God.
It was Charles Spurgeon, that great baptist preacher who said, “If the Lord Jehovah makes us wait, let us do so with our whole hearts; for blessed are all they that wait for Him. He is worth waiting for. The waiting itself is beneficial to us: it tries faith, exercises patience, trains submission, and endears the blessing when it comes. The Lord's people have always been a waiting people”
Waiting to be interviewed for a job as a wireless operator, a group of applicants paid little attention to the sound of the dots and dashes which began coming over a loudspeaker. Suddenly one of them rushed into the employer’s office. Soon he returned smiling. "I got it!" he exclaimed."How did you get ahead of us?" they asked.
"You might have been considered if you hadn’t been so busy talking that you didn’t hear the manager’s coded message tapped out in morse code on the pipes of the office hearing system," he replied. "It said, ‘The one need must always be attentive and listening for any incoming message.”
Elaine Orabona Foster advises that, “God speaks in a soft voice I can hear better when I resolve to listen and stop putting words in His mouth.”
Listening God, you hear us when we cannot speak,
When despair and turmoil leave us faint and weak.
In love you call us back to you again
And your grace reminds is how you feel our pain.
Marjorie Dobson (Singing the Faith 524)
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