SCRIPTURE: Look! Listen! God’s arm is not amputated—he can still save. God’s ears are not stopped up—he can still hear. There’s nothing wrong with God; the wrong is in you. Your wrongheaded lives caused the split between you and God. Your sins got between you so that he doesn’t hear. Isaiah 59:1-2 MSG
THOUGHT: Mom used to accuse me, rightfully so, of mother-deafness, aka selective hearing. I had other voices I was hearing just fine, but because she was saying what I didn’t want to hear, I let it go in one ear and out the other – proving what others feared right along, there wasn’t much up there to stop the flow!
Not so with God. God doesn’t have selective hearing, he just can’t hear us when we are wrapped in sin rather than wrapped in him. Sin produces noise that is contrary to God, and to cross through the barrier, we have to come into agreement with him about what is true, wrap ourselves up in Jesus, and stop all the noise. Then God’s “20/20 hearing” is open, 24-7-365. And his arm is never too short.
PRAYER: Thank you, God, that just being honest, agreeing with you about what is true and what is false, always leads me back to a place where you can hear and answer me again. Thank you for the promise that your arm is never too short.
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