Date: Tuesday, 4th June, 2024
Text: John 10:27-28
Author: Pastor Adedeji Fadehan
Exhortation:
One of the five senses is hearing- the ability to pick up sound sensations and correctly interpret them. Someone with a perfect sense of hearing is a able to hear sounds, detect the direction it’s coming from , correctly decodes the nature of the sound and make accurate meaning of it.
If ten babies were in a room crying, a mother with a perfect hearing sense would be able to distinguish her baby’s voice amidst that of the other children even if she was blindfolded.
It is one thing to hear and another thing to listen. To listen is to pay attention to what is being heard. One of the characteristics of God’s children is the ability to hear God’s voice and obey it.
The Lord said, “My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.” John 10:27-28
When a hen moves around with her chicks and senses danger, probably sights a hawk from the sky, it would make a particular sound to alerts its chicks. The chicks would pick up the signal and take cover under the protective cover of the mother’s wings. There they are safely protected from the hungry predator.
However, if a chick decides to ignore the hen’s voice, it becomes meat for the hawk.
The city of Jerusalem received warnings from God time and again but they took them for granted. The lord lamented concerning her as follows- “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.” Matthew 23:37
Eventually, they ran out of grace because they took it for granted and were overrun by the enemies’ armies.
A dog that is doomed to be lost does not listen to the whistle of a hunter. Psalm 58:5 says, “A cobra that has stopped its ears, will not heed the tune of the charmer, however skillful the enchanter may be.”
Action Nugget: Respond positively to all the warnings you have received from the Lord so far.