BLINDNESS AND SILENCE: A PROPHET IS CALLED (2)
Scripture: 1 Samuel 2:12, 1 Samuel 3:21
Blindness and Silence: A Prophet is Called (2)
Series: In Search of a King: The Book of Samuel
Patrick Edwards
1 Samuel 2:12, 1 Samuel 3:21
Introduction
‘‘Whadge you say?’’ This is the question my seven-year-old daughter is constantly asking me. She’ll be playing in her room with toys or watching T.V., I’ll ask her something or give her a request like to come to dinner, but she’ll be so zoned into what she’s doing or watching that while she heard the sound of my voice, she in no way took the time to try to process what I was actually saying. She may be hearing my voice, but she’s not listening to what I’m saying. Frankly, it’s at least better than what is often the case with Aiden, my nine-year-old. He doesn’t even hear my voice. He’s so locked in to what he’s doing that the house could be burning down around him and sirens going off and there’d be nothing. Now Teresa, my wife, tells me it’s not his fault; that he inherited this inability to hear other stuff when the T.V. is on from me. Eh, fair enough. But what I’ll often have to do with my son is kind of shout and say, ‘‘Aiden, did you hear me?’’ because obviously he can’t listen to what I’m saying if he doesn’t at first hear my voice. Right, I mean, that’s the difference between hearing and listening. Hearing is merely your ears registering the sound of something, but listening is where your mind absorbs the content of that sound and responds accordingly, in this case, hearing words of instruction and obeying them. In my son’s case, he is often so focused on what he is doing and what he cares about that he doesn’t even hear me. In my daughter’s case, at least she hears; she just doesn’t readjust her focus to then listen. This morning’s passage is largely all about hearing and listening and the conditions that often lead to spiritual deafness where we no longer hear God, often because we’ve already stopped listening to Him. Accordingly, we see how the loss of a sense of hearing is soon followed by a los ...
Series: In Search of a King: The Book of Samuel
Patrick Edwards
1 Samuel 2:12, 1 Samuel 3:21
Introduction
‘‘Whadge you say?’’ This is the question my seven-year-old daughter is constantly asking me. She’ll be playing in her room with toys or watching T.V., I’ll ask her something or give her a request like to come to dinner, but she’ll be so zoned into what she’s doing or watching that while she heard the sound of my voice, she in no way took the time to try to process what I was actually saying. She may be hearing my voice, but she’s not listening to what I’m saying. Frankly, it’s at least better than what is often the case with Aiden, my nine-year-old. He doesn’t even hear my voice. He’s so locked in to what he’s doing that the house could be burning down around him and sirens going off and there’d be nothing. Now Teresa, my wife, tells me it’s not his fault; that he inherited this inability to hear other stuff when the T.V. is on from me. Eh, fair enough. But what I’ll often have to do with my son is kind of shout and say, ‘‘Aiden, did you hear me?’’ because obviously he can’t listen to what I’m saying if he doesn’t at first hear my voice. Right, I mean, that’s the difference between hearing and listening. Hearing is merely your ears registering the sound of something, but listening is where your mind absorbs the content of that sound and responds accordingly, in this case, hearing words of instruction and obeying them. In my son’s case, he is often so focused on what he is doing and what he cares about that he doesn’t even hear me. In my daughter’s case, at least she hears; she just doesn’t readjust her focus to then listen. This morning’s passage is largely all about hearing and listening and the conditions that often lead to spiritual deafness where we no longer hear God, often because we’ve already stopped listening to Him. Accordingly, we see how the loss of a sense of hearing is soon followed by a los ...
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