Go to sleep and when he calls you, say, "Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening" (1 Samuel 3: 9).
Joshua, an intelligent two -year -old, saw his mother cooking a cake and asked hopefully, "Mom, can I ask for one?" "No, wait until dinner," replied his mother. Joshua then ran to his room crying, but a moment later he appeared and said, "The Lord Jesus told me I can have a cake now." "The Lord Jesus didn't say that to you," replied the mother, who immediately objected to Joshua, "you must not have listened properly!"
Joshua's motivations may be wrong, but he says two things are right: God wants to speak to us, and we need to listen.
In 1 Samuel 3, there is a young man who learns this timeless principle. When Samuel obeyed Eli's command and prayed, "Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening," he was open to receiving God's powerful message (verse 9). Like Samuel, we long for God to speak to us, but we often fail to hear His voice.
God spoke in an audible voice to Samuel. Today He speaks to us with the Holy Spirit through the Scriptures, other people, and our environment. However, because we ignore it and continue to do activities, we become "difficult to listen." We need "Spiritual Hearing Aids" as in Samuel's prayer: "Speak, Lord, for your servant hears" (verse 10). It is this kind of humility that can help overcome a hard-to-listen heart --JEY
GOD SPEAKS THROUGH HIS WORD
TAKE TIME TO LISTEN
TAKE TIME TO LISTEN
*) Take From Daily Meditation