When you hear something, you're just acknowledging sounds with your ears. When you listen, you pay attention, heed, and obey.

Are you just hearing God, or are you listening to His Word?

As you read your Bible, are you just acknowledging what He has listed, or are you paying attention, heeding, and obeying those words?

It amazes me how often I hear saints talk condescendingly of other peoples' actions. They are so precise with the chapter and verse. They preach mini-sermons railing against the sin they see. Yet they turn right around and sin themselves justifying their actions all the way.

Clearly we all know how to hear, but some of need to work on our listening skills.

God wants all of us to be obedient in all of His word. He encourages to strive to be like Christ who had no sin in Him. We are to work to be shining examples of God's love walking through the earth.

So, what has God been saying to you? What has He asked you to do, change, stop, or perfect? Are you listening to His requests? Or, are they going in one ear and out the other? Real listening is evidenced by changes in behavior according to what was said. Do your actions show that you're listening or hearing?

Verse of the Day: But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. James 1:22