So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.
A few weeks ago I heard the final movement of Franz Liszt's Piano Sonata in E Minor, a piece that I had heard, I'm sure, many times in the past, but this time I listened and began to absorb the magnificent complexities of that work. I heard it, I really listened and I need to get a CD so I can hear the entire work. Over and over!
Many years ago, a beautiful spring morning, up before anyone else, the house was very quiet and I was reading John 13 as part of my daily devotionals. It was certainly not the first time I had read that chapter, but this time I read it and the Spirit opened the magnificent truths of that chapter to me and I reread it. And I read 14 and 15 and 16 and 17, and I read them all again. Still today, 20+ years later, as my daily devotionals take me to those chapters, my spirit flashes back to that morning when I first began to absorb those truths.
True hearing!
Today's readings in the Psalms:
Morning: Psalm 93
Mid-day: 119:41-48
Evening: Psalm 139
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