Spiritual Hearing

"...it shall be, if He calls you, that you must say,

'Speak, Lord, for Your servant hears.'"

1 Samuel 3:9

"I keep hearing my name," said the girl. "I think God might be calling me." As I counseled this young believer, barely a month old in the faith, I was convicted by the sharp spiritual hearing of someone who has just begun to walk in the Spirit. With a heart so eager to learn, she keenly knows how little she knows, and yet desires to share that little with others. It is a trait we so quickly lose as we settle into life with Christ, forgetting the joy of first meeting our ever-present Friend, and losing that sweet voice in the din of earthly noise. I had no profound advice but what I needed to hear myself: ask Him to speak, and then be constantly listening -- when you open His Word, when you talk with others, when you look at Creation, and at all times in between. He will speak, because He has much to say to you!