EARS TO HEAR
(The Sound of Otherness)


Previously I commented about “songs of deliverance” (Ps.32:7) and I asked you if you were able to hear them surrounding you. This business of hearing things supernatural can be a very tricky thing to try and accomplish.

Hearing spiritual things requires spiritual ears tuned to frequencies which are outside (above & beyond) our earthly senses. To be open for and sensitive to such transcendent sonic-ness we have to first desire to hear the “otherness” coming forth from God’s eternal kingdom. And, then, we have to begin to understand that such hearing as that doesn’t happen through casual contact. Relationship is required in order for the lines of communication to be strung into place. For without a connecting point to “things above” (Col.3: 1-3) our reception can only be random at best. And, regardless of the increasingly popular “post-modern-mind-set” randomness isn’t necessarily the best way to move thorough ones life and times. That however is a subject for another blog down the road a ways - perhaps.

For now --- how’s your link to the Trinity? Dropped any calls lately?

A pondering: In John 12, verses 28 & 29 we are told how the sounds of heaven can be received ---- or not. Verse 28 says that “a voice out of heaven” spoke. Verse 29 gives us two examples of how such a sound as that can be processed. One group of bystanders responded by stating “that it had thundered”. The other respondents said that “an angel had spoken”. If you’ll allow me just a little flex room with this passage please, I think there could well have been a third group present at that moment of “divine encounter” who missed it all together. That group would have been comprised of those who heard nothing at all. No thunder. No angels. No nothing. Personal experience has taught me that such people are still among us today. Just look around. There are folks everywhere who never hear (or see) any evidence of God’s presence, power or purpose on the earth or in the heavens above (see Rom.1:20). Sad but true.

When the voice of the Lord speaks which group are you in? As “songs of deliverance” are being sung around you, you may or may not be aware of them. That all depends on how receptive you are to things eternal. And, that’s a “where your treasure is” sort of thing (Luke 12:22-34).

Can you hear Him now? Just checking.

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