We all know someone that doesn’t hear well. You may be that someone. You may often be called or call yourself hard of hearing. I am personally hard of hearing. I know all too well the issues that come from not being able to hear well. I don’t watch videos without closed captions as long as they are available.There are some singers that I really cannot understand because of the pitch of their voice. I have been in a room with someone calling my name, and I don’t hear them until they get loud. People that are around me a lot, know if they say something and I just stare at them, it means I didn’t hear them.
Some people are this way because of bad habits when they were younger. Maybe it was loud music, a loud profession or other loud hobbies without hearing protection. Some of it may be genetic. For some it may even be a combination of the two. Either way, you learn ways to adapt. It may be reading closed captioning or text. It may be reading lips. I once knew someone that couldn’t hear, but they could feel their kids moving through the house. So, you may feel. You may use hearing aids. You do what you can to adapt. If you don’t learn how to adapt you may begin to withdraw yourself from people and events. Because when you can’t hear you feel isolated from everything around you. If you already feel isolated it is too easy to just isolate yourself.
This can also be used in reference to hearing from God. If you can’t seem to hear from God then read His text, the Word of God. Feel after God, pray, worship and listen to christian music. If you have things that are affecting your hearing from God, things that are drowning out your ability to her. Tune them out, turn them down or off. Use “hearing aids,” go to church and listen to the man of God. Listen to men and women of God in your life. Surround yourself with these types of people. Not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another even more as you see the day of the Lord coming nearer (Hebrews 10:25 ISV). Pray for God to restore your hearing. Do not isolate yourself from God, nor the people of God because you are having trouble hearing God. Instead adapt to your circumstances and learn to hear in different ways.
Matthew 11:15 KJV He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
Romans 10:14 KJV How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?
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