A little hymn which our boys and girls sometimes sing begins: “Two little eyes to look to God, Two little ears to hear His Word.”
The “ear gate” is one of the main entrances to man’s soul. And of course, Satan tries to keep hold of that gate, if he can. It was by listening to Satan that Eve and Adam fell in the garden, and then Satan took possession.
But it is one thing to have an ear, and quite another to have an ear to hear. I have seen boys and girls while the word of God was being spoken, amusing themselves with one another or with something else all the time. They had no “ear to hear” they did not care or want to hear the way of God’s salvation. Are you among them? Have you heard the life-giving Word of Jesus? Have you received it unto salvation? Some have now, and as a lamb of the Good Shepherd’s flock, they “hear His voice” (John 10:2727My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: (John 10:27)), and listen to His word.
Others turn away their ears from the truth. They do not want to hear it, or to be saved. Sad it is to see them getting more careless and heedless day by day, until they close their ears altogether, lest they should be converted to God.
How sad will be the ear-opening of such, when at the sound of the trump of judgment they will be aroused at last to their true condition. But alas, too late to hear the sweet gospel message of salvation, life and peace, that now sounds in the gospel.
Do not linger, or trifle, dear boys and girls, lest you also become hardened and your ears so dull of hearing that God’s warnings and His invitations fall as on those who are deaf, and whose ears are sealed against the Word of God.
ML 05/14/1967