Spiritual progress is best made by action – actions of mission, creativity, hope-restoring, life-building and continual conversational prayer.
However, even the best actions must be motivated and founded on the art of listening – listening well to God, our own hearts and the voices of others.
In my journey, I have experienced seasons of great action that felt significant, but in the end may not have been.
Conversely, I have experienced moments of great action that felt as though they were founded on a whisper or shout from God. It is to the fruits of those actions I turn when I wonder if I am in the middle of God’s will.
Learn the art of listening well to God, and responding. By constant practice, we can begin to become the kind of obedient (from the Latin “to hear”) followers of Jesus we are designed to be.
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“God is not moved by the expression we do in worship, God is more interested by the heart behind the worship”. Nice to see some original content for once. I’ll subscribe to your rss feed to get future updates.
As a hearing impaired person, all my life I’ve been one who has to listen closely when people are talking (watching closely [the lips] goes right along with it), sitting in the front rows in school to hear and see, etc. I see myself as one who is a good listener as a result. However, so often I forget about the one who truly matters in eternity’s perspective, that of the voice of God. It is not easy, but it is rewarding when one listens for God and then acts upon what God is saying (if it is from God, but that is a whole other subject). The more we learn to listen, the more we discern when God is speaking and when it is not him speaking. Kind of like over a lifetime of listening for my parents voice or my wife’s voice, even if I don’t understand at the moment what is being said, I know it is their voice and I seek it out to understand.
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