The Ear

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The little boy put his hands over his ears while his mother was speaking to him. Why? Because he did not want to hear what she was saying to him. The Lord said, “He that hath ears to hear, let him hear” (Matt. 11:1515He that hath ears to hear, let him hear. (Matthew 11:15)). Why? Because it was a matter concerning the will. Were they willing to hear and receive? Or did they just want to talk without allowing their wills and consciences to accept what God wanted them to hear and believe? In general, the Word of God uses the ear, when used in connection with moral rather than physical matters, as a message to us about the will and being willing to listen, with heart and conscience, to what He is saying to us. The Lord Jesus had perfect ears. “Sacrifice and offering Thou didst not desire; Mine ears hast Thou opened [digged].  ... I delight to do Thy will, O My God: yea, Thy law is within My heart” (Psa. 40:6-86Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required. 7Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me, 8I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart. (Psalm 40:6‑8)). God’s will was the only will by which He lived; He never acted as a man by His own will. Some of what we read in the following articles will be a hearing test. May we not be like those in Acts 7 who “cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears.”