We are so easily distracted. I guess as sheep that is
expected.
We are so easily (maybe even readily) misdirected from our
focus being on Jesus and the path in which He is leading us. It’s as though
every shiny object and every pretty sound causes our heads to turn from our
fixed focus on this narrow road He has called us on.
The wonderful and well-known hymn, Come Thou Fount, has a
beautiful lyric that says, “Bind my wandering heart to Thee. Prone to wander
Lord I feel it, prone to leave the God I love.” Oh! How true these words speak
to my rebellious and easily distracted nature. Are we Israelites or what? We
have so much evidence and proof of God’s good and perfect will, and yet we
still turn and choose our own way.
In the same hymn, there is another line that says, “Tune my
heart to sing Thy grace.” This has always been a favorite line of mine, because
it truly is an earnest prayer that my heart would be at a constant state of
praise before my Creator, King, and Savior. A few weeks ago, as I was in prayer
before my God, I began praying, “Tune my ear to hear Thy voice.” In a world and
culture as loud as ours, we are more distractible than ever. There are a
million different sounds and voices that the enemy can (and will) use to
misdirect our ears from hearing the good and beautiful truth spoken by our
Father. Whether this be in the form of lies or twisting truth, it is all a
distraction from the evil one to get us out of tune with the voice of Christ.
As a visual person, I imagine a small radio seeker by my
ear, implanted in my skin; a control to tune my ear drum to the voice of Truth
or the voice of the liar. I imagine thin, pointy, grey fingers with burnt,
cracked skin, reaching to the knob to twist the dial, slowly tuning me to the
quiet and almost lovely whispers of his lies. I see a second hand, smooth and
soft to the touch, reaching to the wrist of the liar’s hand; gently ripping the
influence of the deadly hand away from His child’s ear, before tuning the gage
back to the sound of His own voice.
As children, and as sheep, it’s so difficult for us to
decipher what is truth, what is twisted truth, and what is a lie. That is why
praying for God to continually “tune our ears to hear His voice”, is so SO
important. In this distracting world, there is so much for these ears to hear-
but there is only one voice that we should be in tuned with. That is the voice
of our Creator, King and Savior, the only source of truth.
