If
anyone turns a deaf ear to My instruction, even their prayers are detestable.
Proverbs 28:9
This ends this reading from God's holy word.
Thanks be to God.
Communication is the lifeblood of relationship.
This is a saying I have used over and over again when I talk about the
subject of relationships with others.
It’s true, isn’t it? We simply have to communicate (and do so properly)
if we have any hope of establishing and then maintaining a relationship with
someone else.
If you don’t believe it, then try it sometime. Don’t speak with someone
you know for a period of time for a period of time and see if things don’t
change in the way you relate to one another. I have experienced it first hand
and definitely know the negative consequences that come with poor or
non-existent communications.
We need to keep in mind that this problem has a wider set of
implications than just looking at it from a worldly view. For when people
choose to turn from sound communication practices, it impacts not just their
physical worldly life but their spiritual one as well.
For what would happen if we stopped communicating with the Lord in our
life, a process we accomplish through prayer? Wouldn’t our relationship with
Him begin to die on the vine? Indeed, it happens each and every day as people
choose to shut the Lord out of their lives seemingly with little time to just
stop and listen to His still small voice calling out to love and guide them.
How do we even consider this as a possibility? How could we ever ignore
the very God who made us?
It’s simply mind boggling to me that this happens and yet it does.
People simply think they have life all figured out and neither need to consult
the Lord or listen to Him. We are our own masters by choice way too often.
If this describes your approach toward the Lord then you should continue
to read for today’s proverb from King Solomon offers us a stern warning from
the mouth of God Himself, a warning that says to us, “Do not fail to heed my
instruction!” Look at this verse:
If anyone turns a deaf ear to My
instruction, even their prayers are detestable. Proverbs 28:9
Huh? Can a prayer really be detestable to God?
Obviously, it can. For if a person does not want to receive God’s
direction and guidance then He is not exactly interested in receiving that
person’s petition. In fact, I’m sure nothing angers the Lord more than being
ignored by a man or woman when He tries to guide them. He has to wonder who we
think we are that we would ever turn a deaf ear to Him. This is why a prayer
lifted up by someone who chooses to not listen to the Lord is received with
such detestability and loathing. Maybe you would feel the same way if someone
ignored you over and over and over again and then all of a sudden came to you
asking for something like nothing had ever happened. You wouldn’t be very
receptive either to that person, would you?
Friends, it’s time we get this matter straight. When the Lord speaks, we
had better listen. There had never be an instance when we ever turn a deaf ear
toward Him. For every time the Lord speaks to us, it’s for our good as He tries
to shape us into being the people He longs for us to be. Listen to Him, learn
from Him, open your heart to Him, and seek Him always in all matters of life,
and you will assure yourself that He will always listen to you when you cry out
for Him and never see your prayers as ever being detestable in His sight.
Amen.
In Christ,
Mark
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Mark
PS: Please share this with anyone you feel might be blessed by it.
Send any prayer requests to OurChristianWalk@aol.com
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