Dan, Dan, Dan! I am speaking with you, are you listening at all?
Titi asked her husband.
He replied behind his Ipad without looking
up, oh honey, I am listening to you.
He smiled to himself with a boyish grin
not to tease his wife but to celebrate his victory for winning the car-race
game he was playing. If only he saw the tears in Titi's eyes, maybe he would
have attended to her a little more. But he didn't even look up to notice how
she feels.
It’s very common amongst couples to have
one of them not giving the other the required attention for their emotional and
psychological well being. In some worse situations sexual well being and in recent
times, it has become one of the major reasons for divorce or lack of commitment
between couples.
Man in itself was created for connection
not isolation and when man cannot find who to connect with and vice versa,
their wellbeing is threatened. Listening to one another is a skill that must be
consciously developed whether in the family, at work between colleagues, in
sports between team mates and even in church amongst members. No one wants to
find himself or herself ignored as they pour out their hearts; it produces a
low sense of self-worth.
How then do you think God feels when He
speaks and we don't listen or adhere to his words? We go ahead with our plans
when he says something contrary to it. Then when we become confused, we rush to
him in prayer expecting him to listen to us. In fairness to God, it would be
just for him not to listen since we didn’t listen when he earlier spoke. But in
his Mercy, he still listens, hoping we will learn to listen to him later.
He hopes and longs for us to connect with
him not only when we want our needs met, but also in allowing him speak to us
and reveal to us his plans, will, purpose, dreams, and ideas he had planned for
our lives before we were created.
It’s his ultimate purpose that we get to a
synergetic connectivity that no trial, temptations, challenges or worries of
the earth can ever pull apart. So we can become intimately involved, growing in
him, becoming like him and reflecting his image while we are here on earth..
Listen to God today, He speaks everyday
and in every way and longs for you to listen to Him.
