HEART

The word heart has been the theme I guess you might say for the past two months of my life. I have been listening to a certain preacher who has a great teaching on hearing God. She uses the word heart to illustrate in how we hear from God. She was in a church service singing during worship and the word HEART jumped out at her (off the screen) and she saw the word in the middle of heart, EAR and heard God tell her that is how we hear Him, in our hearts. Well I don't 100% remember how the story went but that is the gist of it. So I've heard that teaching on tape this past month and then I went to church this past Sunday and that's what the message was about. Same thing, used the word heart and everything. The pastor also used the story of Balaam and the talking donkey to help illustrate the message. The story is in Numbers where I'm at in my bible reading. I must admit I've had a time with this book in the bible because it is like it's name it has a lot of numbers in the beginning. After hearing that this story was in the same book I've had more desire to keep going in my reading.


Anyway I've said all this to tell you a little story about my daughter that happened this morning. She is 2 and not yet potty-trained but decided this morning she wanted to sit on her princess potty. After she got on the potty I said to her "listen" so we could hear if she did anything. But right after I said listen (instead of listening-ha) she spoke the word "heart". At first I didn't think I had heard her right. So I asked "what?" and she said it clearer and louder "HEART!" and then patted her chest. Wow, I thought, that is either a big coincidence or God is pushing his message home to me through a talking toddler. And why not?! After all he did use a talking donkey! Needless to say she didn't go potty. And I don't quite understand God's timing with this one but maybe the potty ties in there somehow...just kidding


So now I'm on my journey of making my heart's ear capable of hearing from God. If I'm going to live this Christian life I want to hear from God otherwise what am I doing. God wants to talk to us but we have to be willing and available. Something I'm working on. I hope anyone reading this will feel led to do the same.