Telephone Line

Just imagine you are waiting near your land-line for an incoming call. You were expecting the call at 1:30 pm and thus you're near the phone at 1:20 pm itself. It's been 3 hours and the phone still didn't ring. You are concerned and all the more worried and you get very frustrated. Its been 10 hours that the call didn't come and its time to get some sleep, and while resting on your pillow you are still thinking about the call.

The next morning you wake up and wait patiently for the call. 

Its been 10 days of waiting and still no response. On the 11th day you decide to pick the phone and to your shock and surprise the phone is dead and now you realize that for soo long the phone was dead. You step outside and realize that someone had messed up with your wires and eventually its cut. You quickly get it joined back and then the phone is working. As soon as the wire got repaired the phone rings trinng trinng......................

Guess who's on the line???? The one whom you've been waiting for 10 days to hear

Our spiritual lives are also similar to this phone. We wanna hear God's voice, and indeed as we are His sheep, this is the common daily phenomenon. The bible says in Proverbs 4:23 Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

In some version it says guard your heart is like the phone wire. It was not guarded thus it was cut by some one. 

Satan wants to disconnect us from God like that wire. Thus we need to guard our heart and observe the verse says diligently, which means its a continuous effort and requires a lot of hard work and commitment and passion. 

Guard your heart, ummm its easy to guard a telephone wire :-)

Imagine you need to guard your house, what do you do??? 

You mainly observe the movement of people at the entrances or openings of the house. It may be the windows or the doors, no one would guard the walls but the doors and windows. In the similar way we need to guard our doors and windows mainly the gates of our spirit, the gates of our spirit are the eye gate, the ear gate and the mouth too. 

As we guard our heart, then we can hear clearly from God.
Hearing from God is available for every sheep of Jesus Christ.
And those who guard their heart can hear better.
A successful person is a person who can hear from God and obey Him by faith.

Hearing from God is not just limited to Pastors, Preachers or Evangelists. Hearing is for all, thus we see in Revelation, its often mentioned that “he who has an ear let him hear”. Well God speaks to your heart and not to your intellect mind. Your heart is your spirit, and God is a Spirit and He communicates Spirit to spirit. 

So make a decision this day to make a diligent effort to guard your heart because from this flows issues of life, what ever happens in your life depends on guarding your heart and hearing from God.