BE QUICK TO LISTEN
James 1:19 says “ wherefore, my beloved brethren, let everyman be swift to hear and slow to speak, slow to wrath. ” Grammatically, hearing is passive while listening is active. On your way home, you may hear people talk about something; that does not mean you listened to them. But if you pay attention to hear someone, that makes it listening. We can easily conclude that listening is to concentrate on hearing someone or something. I had recently been talking a lot to God through prayers but refused to read the Bible when prompted by the Spirit of God to do so. He put a question to me that “ How often do I listen to Him? ” Suddenly I came to myself that I had never thought of that. All we do is to always talk and talk but never listen to Him. Today, we pray for this, and the next time for another, but we never pay attention to Him. Be quick to listen to God, He is always paying attention to us whenever we pray to Him. God is serious with His children, He does not play us a...