²⁴ “Therefore, everyone who hears these words of mine and acts on them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. (Matthew 7:24 CSB)

This was from a devotional I read this week, “we seek ways of interpreting God’s design for creation to a world impaired in its ability to listen.”

This line stuck with me all week and had me thinking about how true it was. The world has become, or probably always was, impaired in its ability to listen. The enemy fills the world with such clamor that he seeks to drown out any possibility for it to hear anything other than his lies. We are overwhelmed with information and overburdened with so much required of us day after day.

Where is the chance for silence?

Where is the opportunity for solitude?

When can we take the time out to listen for God’s still quiet voice?

We do not learn from history. We do not respect the value of scripture. We do not heed any form of limiting our own greed or desires. We do not listen. We do not apply.

Thus, we succumb to being willingly impaired in our ability to filter out all of the garbage being thrown our way. We allow the marketing of the world to pierce our armor and inoculate us to it’s way of thinking, it’s world view.

We need to listen to God and know that we cannot have a world view. We must have a divine, scripturally based view that provides an ability to listen to something beyond this world. To hear God’s voice through it all and to know that we are set apart and through our words and deeds point to a different way.