Unheard Messages

So, I'm thinking about the power of unheard messages. And by that, I mean, that by the time the message actually clicks and you respond, something happens shortly thereafter, that reminds you just how much you should have listened sooner.

I don't know about "all too often", but many times, we know what we need to do or what we need to care of and we put it off. We delay it, prolong it and for whatever reason, don't make it the priority that it should be, let alone, that we know it needs to be. Perhaps we do the wrong thing, or say the wrong the thing. And yet, shortly after we've made the course correction or confession, as it may be, something happens that shows us just how close to the edge we came.

It's an interesting dynamic, one I dare say, I've witness occur at least twice already this year.

Is it procrastination? Is it stubbornness? It is simply a lack of awareness? Whatever it is, I know that many have battled with the work and the word that God has attempted to accomplish and speak into our lives, whether you stand in the pulpit, sit in the pew or stroll by on the pavement.

On this #seniorPastorMonday, pray that God would help us hear better, sooner to His voice and the prompting of the Holy Spirit. May pastors know what and when to do. Pray that the temptation to delay would be quickly dismissed. Pray for an increased awareness to the hand of God at work. May the "close-call" reminders not be necessary, because the messages where heard immediately and responded to sooner.

Ears to hear
Eyes to see
Hands that do
Feet that go
The body of Christ,
For the glory of God.

- PNC