March 18, 2013

• THE EAR OF FAITH!

   

  I invite you to listen to one of the most unusual illustrations I have ever heard. It blessed my heart, and I’m sure it will bless yours as well.  Here’s the story . . .

   

  A little white baby rolled from a prairie wagon and was found by some Indians. The Indians raised him as one of their own sons. They taught him to listen to and recognize every sound in the forest. But one day, a few years later, they boy’s father arrived at the Indian camp and demanded that the boy be allowed to go to the East with him and be educated in New York City.  “I’m his father,” he stated. We’ve been looking for him for years. Here’s a picture of him as a baby.”

   

  The Indians looked at the picture . . . and with sad faces, reluctantly gave the boy to his father.

   

  One afternoon, while talking with a school pal on a busy street corner in New York City, the boy suddenly shouted, “I hear a cricket! I hear a cricket!”

   

  His city friend laughed. “Even if there were a cricket here, no one could hear its sound above the roar of the city.”  “You’re wrong,” answered the boy who had been raised by the Indians.  “I know a cricket when I hear one.” He searched carefully beneath the leaves in a nearby flower pot. And sure enough, there was the cricket that his ears had been trained to hear!

   

  Shipmate of mine, FAITH is something like that boy’s ear. Faith hears things that an unbeliever would never notice in a hundred years.

   

  But faith, like that boy’s ear, has to be trained. And sometimes we have to obey the command of the Lord, “Be still and know that I am God . . .”

   

  It is indeed unfortunate that most Christians only quote I Corinthians 2:9. It says: “Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man the things which God hath prepared for them that love Him.” But we must NOT stop there! Read on.

   

  Verse 10 is exciting: “But God hath revealed them unto us by His Spirit, for the Spirit searcheth all things; yea, the deep things of God.”

   

  Yes, shipmate of mine, you and I can, THROUGH FAITH, see and hear things beyond the span of mortal eye or ear. God can reveal these things unto us by the Holy Spirit. Someone said to Fanny Crosby, “Aren’t you sorry that you have not been able to see anyone during your long life of 90 years?”  “No,” replied the blind author of such blessed hymns as “Blessed Assurance” and “Saved By Grace”.

   

  Then she added, “Just think! The first face I’ll ever see is the face of Jesus, my Saviour!” Through faith, she could write:

   

  “I shall know Him . . . I shall know Him . . . as redeemed by His side I shall stand. I shall know Him . . . I shall know Him . . . by the prints of the nails in His hands.”

   

  I wonder . . . shipmate of mine . . . are you filled with the Holy Spirit? Does He reveal to you wonderful things that the eye cannot see . . . that the ear cannot hear?

   

  He will . . . if you will “hunger and thirst after righteousness.” God sends no one away empty except the person who is full of self (the one who is satisfied with his Christian life.) But if you have a “dissatisfied satisfaction” . . . if your heart longs for more of God . . .you can well expect a miracle of transformation in your life . . . in your ministry.

   

  God will give you the EAR OF FAITH—and whisper into your soul the deep things of the Spirit! Let Him move upon your soul right now!

   

  Taken from The Log of the Good Ship Grace

  Volume 32 – Number 10 - 1966

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