Because I have listened definitely to one thing from God, it does not follow that I will listen to everything He says.

The way in which I show God that I neither love nor respect Him is by the obtuseness of my heart and mind towards what He says.

If I love my friend, I intuitively detect what he wants, and Jesus says, "Ye are My friends."

Have I disobeyed some command of my Lord's this week? If I had realized that it was a command of Jesus, I would not consciously have disobeyed it; but most of us show such disrespect to God that we do not even hear what He says, He might never have spoken.

The destiny of my spiritual life is such identification with Jesus Christ that I always hear God, and I know that God always hears me (John 11:41).

If I am united with Jesus Christ, I hear God, by the devotion of hearing all the time.

A lily, or a tree, or a servant of God, may convey God's message to me.

What hinders me from hearing is that I am taken up with other things.

It is not that I will not hear God, but I am not devoted in the right place.

I am devoted to things, to service, to convictions, and God may say what He likes but I do not hear Him.

The child attitude is always, "Speak, Lord, for Thy servant heareth."

If I have not cultivated this devotion of hearing, I can only hear God's voice at certain times; at other times I am taken up with things - things which I say I must do, and I become deaf to Him, I am not living the life of a child.

Have I heard God's voice to-day?

Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: If any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.

I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled.

I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone: my soul failed when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.

Speak; for thy servant heareth.—When Jesus came to the place, he looked up, and saw him, and said unto him, Zacchaeus, make haste and come down; for to day I must abide at thy house. And he made haste, and came down, and received him joyfully.—I will hear what God the Lord will speak: for he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again to folly.