Fearfully and Wonderfully Made – Psalm 139:14. Part 3 The Ear

  “Oh blessed are the ears that hear the Spirit’s voice ….” I have heard it said that it is better to be blind than deaf.  If I had the choice, the decision would be a very difficult one to make.  The world in which we live has become a very noisy place.

  Low-flying fighter aircraft are particularly nerve shattering, and the noise of traffic in towns and on motorways tends to crowd out the songs of the birds, which is music to our ears, when we can hear it.

  I feel sure that music is a God-given attribute, when one is able to hear the skylark, song thrush and the little wren.  It is quite amazing the power generated by such a tiny bird as the wren, which produces such delightful music for our enjoyment.

  Turning to man’s capabilities in producing musical sound, we hear the human voice both in solo and choral form, and then we have solo instruments, orchestral and organ presentations, all designed for the enjoyment of the person with the listening ear.

  We have a hymn which deals with the life of Samuel, the much loved son of Hannah who, because of God’s answer to her prayer in granting her a son, Samuel, she ‘lent’ him to the Lord.  The last verse of the hymn reads:-

Oh give me Samuel’s ear
The open ear O Lord
Alive and quick to hear
Each whisper of Thy word
Like him to answer to Thy call
And to obey thee first of all.  

  This is the frame of mind God requires to see in us, so that we may be pleasing to Him, who is about to do great things in the earth by the Lord Jesus, when He returns to set up a world-wide Kingdom ruled over by Him, His angels, and His immortalized  followers.  This will be  a  time of such prosperity in the world that in the words of scripture, “the ploughman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes, him that soweth seed” (Amos 9:13). May God bless our listening, and may our ears always be attentive to His word.

Bro J Wilson (Windermere, England)