Why do we spend so much time praying with our lips and not our ears? Too often we speak to God of what we want and never stop to consider what He wants for us. We're too busy talking to God to listen to what He says. We fervently and passionately pour our hearts out to Him, petitioning as ardently as we know how, then we act on our desires, interpreting the momentary pause in our words, the silence between breaths, as His assent to do as we wish. Pathetic.
How often do we fail to truly listen for the leading of the Holy Spirit?
How often do we search His word for answers, seek wise counsel (wise here meaning more than just friends and roommates, but pastors and elders in the church)?
How often do we actually make Godly decisions instead of just good ones?
How often do we experience failure, moral and otherwise, for lack of patience? For lack of commitment to understanding God's heart in a matter, and not just our own?
How often do we regret following our hearts instead of His?
How often do we exchange the pleasures of the moment for the delights of heaven?
Too often to count.
