“Incline your ear, and come to Me. Hear, and your soul shall live;And I will make an everlasting covenant with you— The sure mercies of David.” Isaiah 55:3
We give more importance to our Physical appearance, how I look, what to wear, more about our body whereas our Lord has more concerns over our Soul and the Spirit. As we all know our physical body perishes but our soul and spirit have everlasting life.” Good news” if we die as a child of our Lord Jesus, we can enjoy everlasting life with our Lord Jesus Christ.
Mathew 10:28 “Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both”.
Lord has given below Instructions to Israelite (His children / us) so that the soul could live.
1.Incline ears to Lord
2. Come to Lord.
3. Hear from Lord.
When we start to listen from Lord and obey His voice our soul will live. Sound simple right.
When we are in crossroad or difficult situation, we tend to seek advice from parents, friends, relatives and many other people who are around us, we also listen to many voices / advice and tend to follow who ever gives us advice pleasing to our will or in other words easy for us to follow.
When we decide to do what pleases us, we just act as we were listening to others, but nothing gets into our minds. For eg., if we decide to marry a person with whom we have fallen in love our ears will be closed to anyone’s suggestions or advice.
Here Lord asks us to Incline our ears to Him and to go to Him with obedient heart and obey His words whole heartedly. If we didn’t do according to Lords instruction which means, we were deceiving ourselves. It only leads to tragedy and failure in life.
In this world we get lots of ideas and strategy free of cost. Prophets can give incorrect advice. Only our Lord can give us perfect advice for given situation. John 10:27 My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me.
James 1:22 “But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.”
Now is time for us to examine ourselves and find whom we are listening to and whose instruction we follow. Each Bible word is living and can transform our dead situation to living one, helps to heal our wounds, dried areas of our life to be blossomed for Lord, fruitless life to become fruitful, unlucky life into blessed one more Word can turn our cursed situation to be a great blessing to many.
When we incline our ears to Lord and obey Him completely, our Covenant with our maker get renewed every day, helps us to grow in Him. We will not only inherit everlasting life we will bring heaven down to the places wherever we go / visit / stay.
3 John 1:2 Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers.
Prayer:
My dear Heavenly Father Loving Jesus, thank you for your covenant which you have made with us, give us loving and obedient heart so that we will listen to you and act according to your words and will. We surrender each of our thoughts and acts into your mighty and powerful hands lead us and guide us to do your will and purpose in Jesus name I ask and pray. Amen
Sol.Stella