What God Hears Every
Day
“Behold, the Lord’s
hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, or his ear dull, that it cannot
hear; but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and
your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear” (Isaiah 59:1-2).
Trying to understand the nature of God is an effort of gargantuan measure and
yet at the end of the day the hem of the garment has yet to be touched. Where
does one begin to unravel the mystery of how completely overwhelming the
presence of the Almighty is? Isaiah reminds us that we are mere dust in the
presence of the Lord (40:15). What then can we imagine our Creator endures each
day as He hears all the activities of man on the face of the earth?
The omniscience
of God comes to His ears and with His eyes He declares His omnipresence. Every
day people are murdered, raped, abused, starved, tortured, in peril, dying from
disease or natural causes. Statistics are impossible to know the true number of
human beings that are slaughtered on the altar of man’s inhumanity to man. And
God hears every cry, every whimper of a hungry child, every moan of agony and
every scream of fright that takes place every minute of every day on the face
of the earth. The Lord hears every act of sin (Isaiah 37:17). One of the
greatest acts of God’s mercy is that He does not destroy the world today for
all the evil He hears.
Peter reminds us
the Lord hears many other things. “For the eyes of the Lord are on the
righteous, and his ears are open to their prayer” (1 Peter 3:12). In the midst
of such evil as it prevails the character of man the bright hope of
righteousness shines forth as the ear of God hears the glorious chorus of the
saints who worship and praise Him. Nehemiah begged the Lord to let His ear be
attentive to Nehemiah’s prayers (Nehemiah 1:11). The Lord heard the words of a
man who delighted to fear the name of Jehovah and granted the request of
Nehemiah. Paul and Silas were in a Roman prison “praying and singing hymns to
God” and He basked in their melody of praise (Acts 16:25). When the eunuch of
Ethiopia made the good confession, “I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of
God” (Acts 8:37) the angels rejoiced with the Father to hear of another child
born into the Kingdom.
Every day people
do kind deeds, express graceful words, sing songs of joy to the Lord, feed the
hungry and clothe the naked. God hears all these acts of man’s greatest
humanity to man in loving their neighbor as themselves. What God hears every day
will be determined by what we do every day. He ponders our lives in every
detail and knows all that we say and do and think (Proverbs 5:21). The
omnipotence of God will bring every word to His throne in the judgment day as
He has heard every word we have said “including every secret thing, whether it
is good or whether it is evil” (Ecclesiastes 12:14).
The ear of the
Lord is not dull that it cannot hear: it hears everything! How many things He
hears that saddens His heart yet how many of the righteous lift His spirits
with their prayers, petitions, expressions of love, and praise to the one that gave
His only begotten Son for man to hear the ring of redemption. What a great God
we serve. How wonderful to be part of a covenant that enjoys the richness of
the ear of God. May our hearts be filled with the sound of the word of God as
He speaks to us by His grace.
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