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IYAR 15

HOW you Hear

 

“BE CAREFUL therefore HOW you listen. For to him who has [spiritual knowledge] will more be given; and from him who does not have [spiritual knowledge], even what he thinks and guesses and supposes that he has will be taken away.” (Luke 8:18 AMPC, emphasis mine)

 

I have a young (grade school age) grandson that I call ‘busy’. He has excellent hearing; however, there are times that he is not careful how he hears, or to put it another way, he has “selective hearing”.  I would suggest there are many of us that have had occasions where we have been guilty of this ‘affliction’.

 

Hearing is one of our five physical senses, so with what are we hearing, if not just our ears?  Yes, we need to hear with our ears, but we also must perceive, understand and receive the Word of Elohim with our nefesh, our inner man.  And yet, there needs to be a willingness to hear in our hearts; we can no longer afford to be selective in our hearing. This is part of “being circumcised in our hearts” (see Rom 2:29); are we treating the Word of our Creator like the treasure that it is?  Are we handling it with care, and with reverential awe?  Do we sh’ma, hear and obey?

 

“Let these words SINK DOWN into your ears …” (Luke 9:44 NKJV, emphasis mine)

 

The Greek word that is translated in this verse from Luke as the phrase “sink down” is the word tithēmi (Strong’s G5087), and in most of its definitions, it means to set, put, or place; to make; to establish.  This verse in Luke is the only place in scripture where it is translated as “sink down”.  If all scripture is written by the inspiration of the Spirit of Yahweh (2Tim 3:16), then this is no accident or coincidence.  I venture to put forth a sequence of events here.  When we “hear” with our ears, we take the Word of God in, and through the power of the Ruach, it “sinks down” into our hearts, where we keep, and guard it (Deu 11:22; 32:46; IJohn 5:3).

 

“If you live in Me [abide vitally united to Me] and My words remain IN you and continue to live IN YOUR HEARTS {sink down}, ask whatever you will, and it shall be done for you.”  (John 15:7 AMPC, emphasis and insert mine)

 

“Incline your ear and HEAR the words of the wise, And APPLY YOUR HEART to my knowledge; For they are pleasant If you guard them WITHIN YOU; Let all of them be ready on your lips.”  (Pro 22:17-18, emphasis mine)

 

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