The Ear Marked With Blood

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The tip of the right ear was marked with blood because it is by the ear that we receive communications; it is an avenue to our minds and hearts. Our judgments are formed according as we hear. “As I hear, I judge.” We receive instruction through the ear, and there is a remarkable connection between the mouth and the ear. As to ministry of the Word, the true servant hears first and then speaks. So it was with the perfect Servant. “The Lord God hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: He wakeneth morning by morning, He wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned. The Lord God hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious” (Isa. 50:4-54The Lord God hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned. 5The Lord God hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back. (Isaiah 50:4‑5)). If evil men and seducers get our ear, there is scarcely any limit to the damage we may receive. Satan first got Eve’s ear, and then her heart transgressed against God. Oh, to have the constant sense in our souls that our ears are wholly for God, so that day by day and hour by hour, like a little child, we may be able to look up and say, “Speak, Lord, for Thy servant heareth” (1 Sam. 3:99Therefore Eli said unto Samuel, Go, lie down: and it shall be, if he call thee, that thou shalt say, Speak, Lord; for thy servant heareth. So Samuel went and lay down in his place. (1 Samuel 3:9)).
Things New and Old, Vol. 24