Hear Don't Shut 1-18-09

I'm very sorry for not posting this devo yesterday. Please accept my apologize :(

Anyway, hear don't shut...isn't it a really weird title? Today I'm going to talk about hearing and don't shut your ears. Many of us had tried this before I bet. You listen to this message and then as time pass by, you would just shut your ears and get distracted. DO NOT DO THIS. The reason is because many of the things that you shut out might be something important that God is telling you or is it something that would help you grow physically or spiritually.

I'm sure many of you had been through this. You are like "Man I heard this 200 times, why do I have to hear it all over again?" Well, I will tell an experience of mine. Last Thursday my teacher taught me the importance of Judah and Joseph. I read this whole passage many times in my life but I never really thought of how significance it is. When I heard what my teacher taught me, I was really amazed. I'm like I had heard this passage so many times but I could never thought of the real significance. I just thought it was just a regular life story that God has written in the Bible but it wasn't. It is something that significance so great. Anyway I bet many of you are like what is the thing you learned about. (Anyway because this does not relate very much but you can ask Chris to tell you tomorrow for his devo.)

See now how every tiny message or Bible passage is so important. This is the big lesson to learn DO NOT SHUT YOUR EARS FROM ANY BIG OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN, LEARN AND LISTEN. I am very sure it is hard because I admit I sometimes get bored during service but I tried to make myself to get interested in the service. (Another thing is you can pray to God for help of listening.)

Once again, sorry for putting this devo so late.