Friday, January 11, 2013

Fantastic Friday #349- Discern

Discern

And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, 10 so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, 11 filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ—to the glory and praise of God. Philippians 1:9-11

Have you ever sat back and listened to someone, I mean really listened to them?  People speak in many ways, and the way they speak is not always with their mouth.  People communicate with body language and feelings as well, and there are many times when the primary way people say something is not with a phrase but with an emotion or movement.  When we sit and listen to others, there tend to be things going on around us and many times those things can be distracting.  If we let those distractions pull us away from listening, then we are not really able to discern what is going on with a person.  The same thing can happen with God and listening to Him.  If we let the distractions pull us away from Him and what He is saying to us, we are never going to hear.  God tells us to love one another, and one of the best ways we can love each other is to listen to each other.  Maybe God is telling us to listen to others when He is speaking to us, but we just aren't listening closely enough. Listen to Discern.
Have a great weekend.

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