Isaiah 34

I love how Isaiah 34 starts, and I think we need to heed the words shared.  Isaiah writes:

1. “Draw in close
2. Listen carefully
3. Pay attention”

Are you picking up what he is putting down here? (not sure what that means exactly buy daughter Laurie says it to me all the time so it must be hip)  We need to focus on hearing God.  We need to wake up and get concentrated on what God has told us.  We need to draw close, like sitting together across the table and scoot up closer so we can hear Him speak truth into us.  We need to lean forward and listen carefully.  God is talking to us through His Word and through answered prayer – if we are listening.  He doesn’t shout it from the mountaintop most days.  He consistently gives us truth and we need to get into His Word and read it, and get on our knees and seek it.  How much time are you spending with God each day – reading, studying, listening, memorizing and meditating on His Word?  For those of you with some Navigator background – you know those are the 5 fingers of the Hand illustration for how we need to handle God’s Word each day.  Try and pick up your Bible with one finger, or two.  Pretty tough and likely not possible at all.  We need to take God’s Word in through multiple inputs.  We need to spend time learning the truth each day.  Are you doing that?

 

How about prayer?  There is a prayer hand illustration as well.  We need to be on our knees regularly – in adoration, confession, thanksgiving, supplication and intercession – focused on the very face of God.  Are you spending time in prayer each day?  Are you seeking God’s face, or just His hands?  We need to be praying for our country, our leaders, each other.  God wants us to get in the game with Him.  He wants us close, focused and listening.  We need to pay attention.  We do that through prayer and being in His Word.  Are you committed to that?