Listen

What if our task on earth is to receive from the hand of God the blessings He wants to give to those around us?  What keeps us from purely receiving those gifts and passing them on?

Pride, inihibition, fear, carelessness (not caring), self-centeredness, lack of dedication to the kingdom of God and to those who need us.

Around the mountain of Sinai, the people said to Moses:  "We don't want to hear to hear the Voice of God, lest we die.  You listen to God and tell us what He says, and we will listen to you."  Of course, it did not always work out the way they said it would, for it is hard to sustain the belief that God is speaking to a man who has the same weaknesses we ourselves do. 

Most of us cannot sustain the discipline of always listening to the still, small voice of God.  There was One, however, Who allowed Himself to come to the end of His own human resources, His own strength, so that He might live wholly to hear the Voice of God for others:  This is my Beloved Son; listen to Him, said the Father of Jesus, Who was always listening to the Father. 

He speaks to us the very words of God, but we still do not hear and receive Him.  To those who will listen and receive, however, He gives the power to become the children/offspring/ seed of God Himself, in spirit and in truth.