Listening--really listening--may be a skill that's becoming a lost art.
How many times have you been at a coffee shop designed for community and conversations...only to see a bunch of people on laptops and cell phones? How many times have you been at lunch or dinner with people who answered their phones and/or used text messaging? (For some interesting stats about texting, check out this article.) Besides technological distractions, sometimes people are bad listeners because they're not fully engaged in a conversation...perhaps they're thinking about something completely different or distracted by other things around them. In some moments, I've definitely been guilty of being a bad listener myself.
Someone who is definitely a good listener? God. According to David in today's passage, He's an especially good listener to those who aren't "cozy with evil," but believe in Him. Check it out:
All believers, come here and listen,
let me tell you what God did for me.
I called out to him with my mouth,
my tongue shaped the sounds of music.
If I had been cozy with evil,
the Lord would never have listened.
But he most surely did listen,
he came on the double when he heard my prayer.
Blessed be God: he didn't turn a deaf ear,
he stayed with me, loyal in his love.
I love how David describes God as one "loyal in love." That's also rare--but absolutely amazing.
Tomorrow: Psalm 70-73
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