Ears to Hear

     I was in the bathroom this morning, combing my hair when suddenly I understood the meaning of "those who have ears to hear." God speaks by His Spirit to us. If you have accepted Him as your Savior and Lord, you have been born on the Spirit, and with that comes getting spiritual eyes and ears. So, when the Lord says "those who have ears to hear," He's not saying some do have them and some don't. He's saying that you can hear, if you will hear. God speaks and says many things people don't want to hear, and so they ignore it, choosing to revert to hearing instead what they want to hear because it's so much more comfortable. This is where the hardening of their hearts, and subsequent deception/delusion comes in. What they think is them being at rest is actually a false rest because they don't experience the tension anymore of the flesh warring against the spirit within them. They have acquiesced to the flesh, and they now hear what they want to hear, and see what they want to see, and all is well, they think. In reality, they are choosing themselves as Lord over God. Now, that's scary! At what point does God give them over to their own delusions?

"Today if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion." Heb. 3:15