Please! "LISTEN"

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.