It is important to consider to whom we are listening. Where do you invest your listening time? Where are your children investing their listening time? When you add up the hours in the day and consider who has the “microphone” during those hours, it’s easy to see that as parents, we’re lucky to get in a few minutes. Between work or school, television, radio and the iPod, we can see our listening time gets pretty crowded – and not always with the best input. Obviously we would do well to give attention to the One Who gave us life, and Who gave His life for us. We can trust God’s Word, the Bible, to accurately communicate God’s message to us. We can trust His Holy Spirit to breathe wisdom into our thoughts. But sometimes it’s not clear where a thought is coming from. That’s why we need to develop an ability to discern, to identify the source of ideas. Check out a thought or idea against God’s Word. Is it consistent? Consider, are you making time to listen to the most important people in your life? Are you spending enough time in God’s Word?
Read: John 10:27; Isaiah 30:21; 1 Corinthians 1:18-25, 2:13-16; 2 Timothy 4:3; Devotions by Steve Hoye |
