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Thursday... Being listened to elevates our worth.


Psalm 116:1 (AMP), "I love the Lord, because He hears [and continues to hear] my voice and my supplications (my pleas, my cries, my specific needs)."

Thursday... Being listened to elevates our worth. 

It really does, doesn't it? So do you avail yourself of this fact and also live it out to others?


Both my wife, Margaret and I have some problems with our hearing. That seems to go along with getting older but being older is not a problem with God. Now because of our love for each other we strive to speak a little louder but using that as an excuse is not a good reason for not listening. Love means we try harder to hear and to be heard. Love does that. 

Now ignoring someone and not hearing what they are saying because you don't think they are important enough for you to make the effort to hear what they are saying is not the way it is with God. He doesn't say that he's not going to listen because he is tired of listening to all our problems because we are so needy. Now we may say that with some people but not God. You see, he loves us and shows it by listening.

The Message says, "I love God because he listened to me, listened so intently as I laid out my case before him."

We really do need to see in our relationships how much listening shows we care. "I loved God because he listened to me." But I've worked hard all day and I just need to stop and rest. I want to relax. I don't want to be bothered. But maybe your child had a rough day at school and they need to tell you. Or your spouse needs some of your listening time. Love is shown in so many different ways. And we need to continue just like God does with us.

Verse 5 (NLT) says, "How kind the Lord is! How good he is! So merciful, this God of ours!"

Yes he showed how much he loved us by sending his son to die for us but he also loves us so much that he hears our voice and our prayer for mercy. Verses 1-2 (NLT) says, "I love the Lord because he hears my voice and my prayer for mercy. Because he bends down to listen, I will pray as long as I have breath."

When my wife says something in the other room and I can't hear her, love means I get up without complaining and go into the other room to hear what she is saying. I'm sorry to say that I don't always do that. I can be annoyed and come back at her and say, "Could you speak louder?" but God bends down to listen. God shows us what real love is and if we loved like that a whole lot of marriages wouldn't be falling apart. Love doesn't demand and complain it does whatever we need to do to listen. That really does show love.

Verse 2 (AMP) says, "Because He has inclined His ear to me, therefore I will call on Him as long as I live."

Being listened to elevates our worth and shows that they love us and it is also true of us. God is our example. "I love the Lord, because He hears [and continues to hear] my voice." Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning


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