LISTENING TO YOUR INNER EAR

LISTENING TO YOUR INNER EAR




DO you know
That you have
An inner ear


YOUR inner ear
Is actually called your heart


IF you look at the word “heart”
Inside the h and the t
Is the word “EAR”


And that is
What we need to listen to
What we need TO OBEY
Our heart
When we are speaking to God


“I will allure her
I will lead her into the desert
And speak to her heart” Hosea 2:16


In this passage
Of Hosea
God is leading Israel
Into the desert


With tenderness
Like a husband
Has for a devoted wife


In the old testament
The desert
Was a place
WHERE a person went
TO FIND GOD


It was solitude
AWAY from the familiar


It was where
A person would
NOT just hear God
But where a person
COULD feel God


In the desert
And RIGHT in his own heart


“PRAISE you Lord
I will
Praise the Lord
With my whole heart


In the assembly
Of the upright
And in the congregation” Psalm 111:1


“I will praise thee
With my WHOLE HEART


Before the gods
I will SING
Praise to thee” Psalm 138:1


The OLD testament people
They listened to God
With their INNER EAR


THEY listened to God
With their whole heart


And WHEN it came time
To pick his disciples
Jesus didn't look for those
Who followed
The LETTER of the law
The pharisees and the sadducees


HE looked to those
With the inner ear
He looked to those
WITH HEART


He chose fishermen
He even chose a tax collector
And the woman he chose
Was a woman
BESET BY SEVEN DEMONS


BUT they had one thing
In common
They had the inner ear


They had compassion
THEY HAD HEART


WE his disciples
Of the 21^st century
We NEED to have that inner ear
We need
TO HAVE HEART TOO


Dear Lord-we pray
That like the people
In the desert


Like your apostles
Of yesteryear


HELP us
To have that inner ear


Help us to have
That compassion


Help us to have
H---EAR---T


Robert P. Wallman

July 7^th, 2014