For some reason, it seems like every morning maintenance is out roaming around campus with their leaf blowers. There could be no leafs on the ground and they're still out there blowing away. Heck, there could probably be a little snow and they will still be out there. I am not poking fun at them either, they are working hard and doing a great job at what they do.
Walking to class this morning, the blowers seemed to be extra loud. I don't really know why but I knew I noticed it for a reason and that reason is what I am writing about. "You hear what you want to hear," I noticed those leaf blowers this morning and that is where my focus was.
A couple of things came to mind when I was trying to think of why they seemed so loud. One of the things that came to mind was God's voice. We won't hear God's voice all the time but I believe when we want to we can! Even if we don't want to hear God's voice, we sometimes still hear it. Just like the leaf blowers this morning, I felt like they were shouting at me trying to get my attention and they did. I feel like sometimes we put God's voice in the back of the closet where we don't want to hear it and don't notice it. Does that make sense?
It's interesting how what we chose to hear affects us in different ways. It goes back to our perspectives and how we perceive things.
An example I can think of is basketball games. When we play our games, there are usually a lot of things that are going on at once. Fans cheering, parents yelling and screaming, hundreds of people sitting it the stands watching the game and having conversations, a lot goes on. I hear my coaches yelling and shouting along with my teammates, I hear the opposing coaches yelling and shouting. There are a lot of a lot of voices every night. Out of all the people talking, somehow my coaches' voice is the only one that I hear and I make it that way because that is the only voice I need to hear in a game, along with my teammates of course.
Again, same thing with God's voice. If you want to hear what God has to say to you, listen and choose to hear it.
I continued on to Daniel chapter 2 this morning and what I want to share from this relates to the whole idea of leaf blowers and God's voice...it'a amazing how the Holy Spirit works like that sometimes.
In Daniel chapter 2, King Nebuchadnezzar had a dream. He had a lot of dreams. His spirit was troubled and his sleep left him. The king commanded that the magicians, the enchanters, the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans be summoned to tell the king his dreams. These people were brought to the king and the king told them that if they did not interpret his dreams that they would be torn limb from limb, but if they did interpret the dream they would be given a great reward. The magicians, enchanters and Chaldeans could not interpret the dream, and the king was starting to get angry. He felt like they were lying and trying to kill time. The Chaldeans told the king that there is not a man on earth who can meet the king's demand, for no great and powerful king has asked such a thing of any magician or enchanter or Chaldean.
The word got out that these men needed to be killed and David and his men were the ones who were going to do that. Daniel asked why the decree seemed to be so urgent and Arioch explained to him the matter. Daniel then went to the king and asked to be appointed to interpret the dream at that time.
Now, when I think about this I get a little confused to what the king was thinking. The king new that Daniel had wisdom and understanding that was greater than the magicians and the enchanters. Yet he asked for the magicians and the enchanters first. I believe that we do that sometimes as well. We know what is the right answer and the right thing to do but we go about it in the wrong way. We also know who the right people are who we should talk about certain things with, yet we don't do that.
I like to think of it this way, sometimes we try to figure out the right way our way...we can't forget what we have learned...we are sneaky and we are sly. We rely too much on doing things our way and not the way we know deep down in our hearts is the right way.
Why not do it the way in which we know is right. When we go through tough times, why not ask the person we know who has the right advice? Why try to do it our way? Why?
We choose what we hear and who we listen too. Just like annoying leaf blowers every morning, God's way, God's voice, and the people God put in your life are always there. You just have to hear them out.
Hear what you want to hear...
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