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Week 3: Listening to the Father
Called to Listen through the Prophet Jeremiah
Week 3, Day 6
As someone who stays quite busy, whose thoughts are always whirling with a multi-tasked variety of ideas, calendars, commitments, and people, it is hard to stop and listen—to be fully present in the moment and listen. Listening to God, to others, and to the world. The book of Jeremiah refers to listening or hearing more than any other book in the Bible. And it is in reference to God lamenting that His people have not listened to Him. I do not want to be the subject of our Father’s lament. And I’m sure you don’t either. You have already made that choice by listening to the Father’s voice throughout these forty days. For that, I congratulate you!
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Week 3: Listening to the Father
Rebellious Ears Mean Broken Tears
Week 3, Day 5
Throughout the Old Testament, we hear the voice of God the Father more than that of the Son or the Spirit. And He spoke, most often, through prophets. However, the Israelites provided us with countless examples of those who did not listen... or if they listened, they did not obey.
When God speaks through Isaiah in chapter 48, He addresses the “house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel.”
Isaiah 48:8, 17-19 (ESV)
8 You have never heard, you have never known,
from of old your ear has not been opened.
For I knew that you would surely deal treacherously,
and that from before birth you were called a rebel.
17 Thus says the LORD,
your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel:
“I am the LORD your God,
who teaches you to profit,
who leads you in the way you should go.
18 Oh that you had paid attention to my commandments!
Then your peace would have been like a river,
and your righteousness like the waves of the sea;
19 your offspring would have been like the sand,
and your descendants like its grains;
their name would never be cut off
or destroyed from before me.”