Eyes will SEE and EARS WILL HEAR...Knees WILL Bow!

Posted: 08 Nov 2011

Good morning,

As I write this morning, I am reminded that , "Ears To Hear" may need an add on. Ears to hear and hearts to do, may be the complete name of this title. For I originally was led by Holy Spirit to Revelation 2:7, "He that hath an ear let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches..." I never want to give the idea that hearing is the only thing necessary, honestly we all know that 'hearing' is just the beginning. For the very same book of Revelation 1:3; says, "Blessed [is] he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time [is] at hand". The blessing comes when you read, hear, and keep. Blessed simply means happy. Read is to acknowledge, to distinguish between; to recognize accurately. Hear means to be endowed with the faculty of hearing, not deaf; to hear, to attend to, consider what is or has been said, to understand, perceive the sense of what is said; to hear something; to perceive by the ear what is announced in one's presence; to get by hearing learned; a thing comes to one's ears, to find out, learn; to give ear to a teaching or a teacher; to comprehend, to understand. We must first perceive what is being said, understand it and comprehend it. Keep means to attend to carefully; to guard; to observe; to undergo something; to persist in; to stay at it; be steadfast; to hold to and maintain.
So we must stay at or persist in what we have read and understood and comprehended, that is where our happiness or blessing should come from. Really how many of us have persist in what we have understood? We must go back to our earlier days of our lives when we learned by repetition, continuing to do the same thing over and over again until it becomes a part of our lives, part of who we are. "For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: "(James 1:22) "Doer" carries the meaning of a maker, a producer, author, performer; one who obeys or fulfills the law. So then hearing the Word or understanding and comprehending the Word puts you in the place of making a choice. Choose to produce, perform, and obey the Word by making it operative in your life, then you fulfill the Word. Hearing what God says is the beginning, but doing it is the fulfillment. Every time you hear you have a choice, it is at your discretion; you can either perform the Word or not. But always remember it is not what you hear alone, but what you do with what you've heard that matters.. Listen and hear and do; "But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth [therein], he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed." (James 1:25) Let's choose to do what we hear and persist in doing it, whether it is love-walking, forgiveness, living by faith, going to church, or anything that you have read, or heard, and understood.

Love,

Pastor D.