OT DAY 247 - You Listen, I Obey. But Will It Happen? (Please click here for English podcast)

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Silence

1.   Put on your “brakes” and stop for a moment of silence

2.   Wait for God. Breathe deep for God's peace. Exhale your worries.

Praise and Thanksgiving

1.   Think through your day, all the times that made you smile

2.   Thank God for all those moments, and for all those people

3.   Open your heart to praise the Lord

       
           How great are your works, O Lord!
                       Your thoughts are very deep!
6           The stupid man cannot know;
                               the fool cannot understand this:

                                  Psalm 92:5-6

        
          
Confession and Repentance

1.  Pray for the Holy Spirit to work in you:

     “Dear Holy Spirit, shine your light into the places of darkness in my life. Show me my sins, everything that blocks me from encountering God. In Jesus’ name I pray, Amen.”

2.  Through the Holy Spirit, examine yourself for a short silence and then pray:

     "Dear Lord Jesus, thank you for dying on the cross for our sins and being victorious over death and sin. I confess my sin to you(pause, to tell Jesus what the Holy Spirit has shown you). Forgive my sins by your blood and help me follow you. Holy Spirit, fill me that I may be able to receive your gifts to love God and His people. In Jesus Name I pray, Amen."

The Word (Deuteronomy 5:16-33)

English(ESV): https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy 5&version=ESV

23 And as soon as you heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, you came near to me, all the heads of your tribes, and your elders. 24 And you said, ‘Behold, the Lord our God has shown us his glory and greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire. This day we have seen God speak with man, and man still live.25 Now therefore why should we die? For this great fire will consume us. If we hear the voice of the Lord our God any more, we shall die. 26 For who is there of all flesh, that has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of fire as we have, and has still lived? 27 Go near and hear all that the Lord our God will say, and speak to us all that the Lord our God will speak to you, and we will hear and do it.’

                   Deuteronomy 5:23-27

Let's have a time to be still and give the Holy Spirit space to speak through the passage of scripture we have just read. Offer this time up to Jesus as you listen to him, while listening to "Gabriel's Oboe"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmax47l2hLU

My Listening

     This passage is rather funny and also sad and painful. Why? Funny because you can image how those leaders looked like as they were so frightened to hear God's voice. Sad and painful because they decided not to hear anymore but gave that duty to Moses promising Moses that they would obey. Do you think it would happen that they really will obey? 

Let's see how Professor John Goldingay tells us: 
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Goldingay) :

    

     Moses, God, and the people talk a lot about listening in Deuteronomy 5. The people have listened to God speak, but they feel it is dangerous to listen any more…Let Moses do the listening, and they will listen to Moses…

     God can be pleased with the reverence implied in their not wanting to be personally confronted by God's words and their willingness to listen via Moses and obey. But will it happen? There is listening, and there is merely hearing. Hebrew in fact uses the same word for hearing, listening, and obeying. They are three different actions, yet when humanity is working properly, they are three aspects of the same action. 

John Goldingay. Numbers & Deuteronomy for Everyone. Louisville,KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2010, p.111-112.

     There are quite a number of Christians still think that they are not able to listen to God's voice. They choose to listen to their pastors and leaders who claim that they can be able to listen to Jesus. They choose to tell their pastors and leaders just like what those leaders told Moses, "You listen, I obey."

     But will it happen? 

Dear Lord Jesus, 
Help us to be able to listen to you directly and that we are willing to obey what we hear from you.  In Jesus’ name we pray, Amen.

Reflect on these questions:
1. Are you one of those Christians who think you can't listen to God directly? 

2. Do you know why you are not able to listen to God directly? Do you think you can work properly as a human to have hearing, listening and obeying as one action? If you can't, do you know why?

Praise and Thanksgiving

Let's give thanks for God with us. Let us praise Him:

10,000 Reasons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXDGE_lRI0E

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