Hear His Voice To Day

UV 357/10,000 Hear His Voice To Day Heb 4:7 Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts The Lord measures the extent of our faith or how soft, responsive, sensitive and receptive our attitude is towards God and the things of God. It is into this soil of the soul that the Lord plants His Word on a chosen day in His chosen people. God is not a limited being. The only thing that limits Him is the extent of our faith. Each one of us is limited in time and space. There is only x number of days or years we can live and x space that we can occupy. But, for the Lord time is a continuum. Every day and year on earth is today for Him. It is called to day so that we use it to hear His voice, To obey Him, To worship and To be thankful to Him for life here and now and eternal life , to use our gifts and our resources for His glory and to fulfil His purpose for our lives, to serve others and bring hope and meaning into their lives. The human mind is a gateway for God to act in our lives. The responsive and receptive mind consisting of our thoughts, emotions and will enable God’s love, power, mercy and grace to be manifest in practical ways in our lives. But, most people use it as a getaway from God- on how to distance one self from Him, on how not to believe and trust Him. Since God is invisible to human eyes, it is primarily through the inner ears of man that we can hear the voice of God and recognize that it is the move of God in our lives. We have to subordinate our predominant sight and sensual senses to the hearing of the Word of faith. When we depend predominantly on our reason and our visual sense, we are conditioned to disbelieve God and His Word- we harden our hearts. The Word is available to be sown in our hearts but it is not soil that is ready to receive the eternal Seed. When this happens, the Lord has to break into our “today” and break our hard and parched soul with ploughing and the water of the Word and the Spirit to make it once again suitable for the planting of the seed. Prateep V Philip