Some things are too important to ignore. If someone says them, and we overhear, it’s exciting.
Who wouldn’t want to overhear that the station at 4th and Vine has gas a dollar cheaper than anywhere else? Or our spouse on the phone telling someone that our anniversary is the next day?
What about this example? We’re walking the streets of a foreign city, totally lost, and our guidebook phrases are incomprehensible to us. We overhear two people conversing in English. We want to hear that! Finally someone can give us directions to get to our destination.
What’s God got going on that he wants us to listen in on? Where should we be eavesdropping on God?
Acts 2:38 says:
“Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.”
Punch a fist in the air. We want to overhear that!
Acts 2:4 says:
“And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.”
Keep that ear to the door. It only gets better!
James 2:24 says:
“You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone.”
You mean we have to work for Christ? This is good stuff!
James 2:18 says:
“But someone will say, ‘You have faith and I have works.’ Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works.”
Write that one down. Show…faith…by…our…actions.
Hebrews 11:7 says:
“By faith Noah, being warned by God concerning events as yet unseen, in reverent fear constructed an ark for the saving of his household. By this he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.”
So…Noah listened to God…and was saved. We need to listen more often.
Ephesians 2:8-9 says:
“For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.”
So, if we understand this correctly, grace saves us, but works prove our faith. We’re listening, God. This is good teaching.
Galatians 3:27 tells us:
“For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.”
Wiretapped from the voice of God, right from the Bible. We should have started eavesdropping on him a long time ago.
There are times that eavesdropping is exactly what God wants us to do. He has this line of communication going on 24/7, and it’s available to us every day. All we have to do is listen in, and we learn he’s already paid for our sins, given us the time of our reunion with him, and laid out our directions to get to our destination.
Of course he wants us to listen in. We should be eavesdropping on God with enthusiasm.
Let’s get our ear on the Bible. It’s speaking to us every day.
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