Listening

"Words of Life" today has this meditation on listening.

"Speak Lord, for your servant is listening" 1 Sam. 1: 9
"Listening is a learned skill.... There are many voices clamouring to be heard. Some voices are not good at all. It boils down to listening well. What is God saying to us, as we set out to live for him?"

Quite often instead of saying to God "Speak Lord, for your servant is listening" some of us are so concerned with our own problems, when we come to God, we tend to say to Him, "Listen Lord, for your servant is speaking." There have been times when I have to plead guilty. We do not give God the listening ear.

It is interesting to listen to interviews on radio or television. Sometimes it can be quite annoying when the interviewer does not allow the person being interviewed to finish his sentence.  He cuts right in to asks the next question.

I find that in conversation too. There are people who are more interested in giving their own viewpoints they have no time to listen to others.

I pray that the Lord will grant me the listening ear - to listen to Him and others. God gives to each of us two ears, but only one mouth. This means He wants us to listen twice as much as we talk.