God, You Amaze Me: What You Listen To.

A new week a new you!

A few Golden Nuggets this week. It wasn’t to me writing this weeks blog, as it has been in previous weeks. But I’m hoping as I type this out, it will become clearer.

For starters I walked from my place to Woolies! And if you’ve been following on from last week’s blog, you will know that since I am without a car (until I save for my second car) for the past weeks doing the groceries, I have been taking the train. However, I wanted to test and see what it would be like to walk about 20 mins to Woolies and see if it would feel better overall, than the 1 hr train commute.

And it was! It was so worth it! Not only was the walk good for me physically, but the overall time felt well spent. It felt quicker, because the previous way of getting groceries home seemed like a long time, without progression. Like stagnant.

Anyway, back to the story…

I will have you know, I don’t have the best hearing in general. So as I am walking to Woolies, I have my music playing loud in my ears, to go above the noise of the cars. Right now, I am halfway to Woolies and at this point I really am just loving life. Then, all of a sudden I start hearing a beeping sound in my ears.

Beep.

Beep.

Beep.

For a long time, I now I am beginning to believe my Air Pods are broken. But little did I know, that for those past solid 30 secs, of constant beeping, that there was a guy on a scooter behind me. Because as I readjusted myself and slightly positioned more to the left hand side of the path… sure ensure, behold, a guy on scooter speeds ahead of me.

I felt so bad at that point of realisation. The fact that he was beeping at me to move, and it probs looked like I def ignored him. That I was inconsiderate and rude.

But think with me here, if we try apply to our faith. If our ears are drowned out by other noises, we cannot hear what truly matters. Like in life, if we are too busy listening to others, we cannot hear what truly matters most. And that’s hearing from our Creator God.

I was also just randomly thinking, even myself in the past where I let my own thoughts dictate my actions. Even in this world we live in, so much even online, where we compare ourselves to others and are told by people we wouldn’t even trust telling our iPhone password to, what we should do and look like. I was thinking, more about appearance in our weight. But think about it, whether your under or overweight, you would not be satisfied. If we are underweight, we are not satisfied because we lack energy. And when we’re overweight, we eat more because were are not satisfied. Like the love of money, the little you have the more you want, and the more you have the more you want. But truely, the right amount is all we need. Not excessive amounts or insufficient amounts, but the amount for our needs. See there is a BIG difference between our needs and our wants.

But even now, what noise are you listening to? What fuels you – what do you listen to most in your day? What occupies your thoughts the most? [John 10:27]

Truly the words you listen to, is what will slowly begin to shape and mould you. Be careful what you consume yourself with.

This week, I also realise what it means to commit. I was running late to the train and realised I wouldn’t have made it in time, even if I had left right then and there. So I admitted defeat. But then 5 mins later when I did leave, I see the train I was meant to passing by. It too was running late. So I would have still made the train had I not admitted defeat. If I had committed to it, and saw it through and try to still make the train – I would have been happily surprised to see that I would have indeed made it.

And to tie it all together, from this week I learnt that we (1) need to tune our ears and thoughts more to God, (2) commit to listening to His Word, and (3) find that He will satisfy our needs.

The transport is so unreliable. But God is reliable.

God, you amaze me!

E

John 10:27 NIV

My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me.