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Silence VII - Listen ...

Monday, Aug 18, 2014. What is our goal in searching silence? Perhaps we need to get out of some trouble. Perhaps we want to avoid problems or difficulties? There are also some very basic and normal desires which we all have: to orient ourselves, to get some distance to the business of todays working world. We desire to find a quite place, where we can just be what we are.

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Do we listen to the Lord? …

The basic question I ran into thinking about silence is the following: do we really want to listen to the Lord? Do we want to listen, and then do? Do we want to know what he thinks, what he desires, what his plans are?

When you read Psalm 81, you hear about the people of Israel, which were not listening in some parts of their history. 11 “But my people did not listen to my voice; Israel would not submit to me. 12 So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts, to follow their own counsels. 13 Oh, that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways! 14 I would soon subdue their enemies and turn my hand against their foes. 15 Those who hate the Lord would cringe toward him, and their fate would last forever. 16 But he would feed you with the finest of the wheat, and with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.” (Psalm 81, 11-16)

Listening takes time - so it is good to search for silence to have time to listen. And God wants to talk to us - to you and to me, personally. It does not necessarily mean that we will hear a voice in the silence, but it will mean that we gain a better understanding of what he wants, what he thinks, what he desires. We will gain it on the basis of bible knowledge, of sermons and books and information we have about God. In the biblical stories he talks directly to us, by images, by discussions, by the history of His people.

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Do we do what we hear? …

It is always an important point that we do what we hear from the Lord. Jesus even gives a full parable on this topic: building a house with good foundation or on sand. We need to do what we hear from the Lord to build our house on a good foundation.

When you start to take God serious, you will get to know the difficulties to do so. You will get to know your own character and personality, which might in part fit well to what the Lord desires, but which might have many features which are not in line with his desires. Come and join the perspective of a disciple of Jesus, who starts to learn about God and about himself. Faith is a great personal journey, where we develop further, where we gain maturity, step by step. Listening in the silence, and doing what we hear, are two main steps of this journey, which need to be repeated again and again.

We need to talk more about this process of hearing and doing. Let us do it together, by discussing the experiences and the biblical scriptures. But let us also do it personally, by following the Lord, by living faith! (Roland Potthast) ... more texts

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