August 20, 2010
Blessed Ears
According to an AP report nearly 1 in 5 teens are losing some of their hearing and the likely cause is loud music and earbuds. It’s doubtful these teens understand that in the future such hearing loss will impact them personally, socially and even financially. Scripture often uses the phrase, ‘He who has an ear, let him hear…’ and yet for the believer many fail to understand that their lack of hearing has a spiritual impact. Jesus said, “For this people’s heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.” (Matt 13:15 NIV)
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Gail;
-----You have to not know what you don’t know, otherwise you will never know what you can know. The greater damage to the person who must always have music plugged into his ears is not to his sense of hearing, but to the treasures of his experiences. This is the same damage Jesus addressed when He said, “For this people’s heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears...” It wasn’t that they had never heard, or could not hear, anything. They could hear and did hear. But what they heard was not pertinent, at least, or even more, was not true. As in our day, the people of Jesus’ day had many philosophical options for viewing the relationship between God and man. The Pharisees offered an extreme bent on keeping the letter of the Law, the Sadducees offered a mere application of Scriptural principle to human governance, the Zealots offered a rebellion against Roman rule, the Hellenists offered a blending with contemporary culture, and the Essenes offered ascetic purity through withdrawal from the unwashed masses. Yet the truth remained unheard and unknown because they heard and knew so much else.
-----The hardest thing for people to understand, and the thing to which they least submit, is the fact that truth does not need any man’s knowing or hearing to exist. When we think what is not true is true, we are the ones left out, not truth. For truth continues to exist as what it is regardless of what anyone thinks it to be. People’s utter ambition to feel as if they know the truth is their very impediment to knowing it.
-----Although knowing something not true is certainly knowing something, it is still not knowing, just as hearing something not to be heard is yet not hearing what is to be heard. So in order to know the truth that you can know, you must not consider that you know it until you have actually heard it. Otherwise your knowing something else will be your not listening for the truth. Knowing what you don’t know is like the person experiencing earbuds instead of people. Emptying the mind of personal perceptions in order to know what is true is like pulling the earbuds from your ears to hear the people with whom you actually have to do.
Love you all,
Steve Corey
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