Iyar 16
WHAT are you
Hearing?
“If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear.” And He said to them, “Take
heed WHAT you hear. With the same measure you use, it shall be measured to you,
and more shall be added to you who hear. For whoever possesses, to him more
shall be given; but whoever does not possess, even what he possesses shall be
taken away from him.” (Mark 4:23-25 ISR, emphasis mine)
How often are we
hearing, yet not actually listening? How
much do we “tune out” during the course of the day, such as TV commercials,
conversations of other people in the grocery store, the dog barking down the
street, etc? Yet it is surprising how
much we can recall when we need to, considering our ability to selectively “hear”.
Messiah Yeshua
gave us warnings about what we are to hear: according to our opening
verse, we are to take
heed, be careful, use caution and watch, as for danger. Both in the Hebrew and Greek, the words
translated “hear” (sh’ma, Strong’s #H8085; akouō, Strong’s #G191) include the sense of comprehension, understanding, obedience and action, all within the
sense of hearing. So, not only are we to
“hear and listen”; we are also to obey, following through with the corresponding
action. It is therefore no wonder that we
need to watch out for what we are listening to.
How
are we hearing, if not with just our ears?
What are we
depositing into our spirit man, words of life, or words of death? We hear with our
ears, but we understand and receive the Word with our hearts, and our
spirit. The attitude of our heart,
according to the parable of the sower (Luke 8:11-15), has everything to do with
how we receive and hear the Word of our Elohim, and once we receive the Word,
it becomes our responsibility to tend to it.
“Hold the pattern of
sound words which you have HEARD from me, in belief and love which are in
Messiah יהושע. Watch over the good deposit that was entrusted to you, by the
Set-apart Spirit dwelling in us.” (2Tim
1:13-14 ISR, emphasis mine)
“Because of this we have to pay more attention to what we have HEARD,
lest we drift away.” (Heb 2:1 ISR,
emphasis mine)
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