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Swift To Hear And Slow To Speak. (Part 2)

When we speak, write or preach much more than we hear or learn at the Master's feet, it is evident that we are hasty and full of the expression of our own words and thoughts. The Master(the Lord Jesus) in the days of his flesh/sojourn on earth, was the very word made flesh, yet his greatest appeal was to that which is written and speaking only as he hears from the Father. If the very word of God in human flesh was careful and cautious not to speak/do anything of his own self or bear witness of himself, much more should those who are called to serve him, dread such expressions. Sadly, our preaching, teaching, commentary, exegesis and interpretation is often so loud and verbose that it crowds out the voice of scripture and what the Spirit is saying.  We speak and write volumes in whose echoes and pages, the voice and lines of truth in scripture, is hardly/faintly heard and read. Scripture itself says that a fool's voice is known by multitude of words and that sin

Swift To Hear And Slow To Speak.

The root of the problem in Christendom today can be traced to bad/wrong teaching and presentation of God. Where you have people who love teaching/preaching and to be heard, hailed and appreciated by men, much more than sitting at the Lord's feet to hear his voice, to learn of him and to study to be approved of God; there also you have a perfect recipe for spiritual disaster, expressed in wrong exegesis, misinterpretation and misrepresentation of God.  One lesson i learnt from the genesis of time as presented in the scriptures of truth, is that God is never in a haste to speak/express himself; in the midst of the darkness, formlessness and voidness/emptiness which the earth was plunged into, God patiently hovered and brooded over the situation by his Spirit. He was swift to move into the situation, to behold and assess it, before he spoke into it. Romans 15:5 calls him the God of Patience and James 5:7 reveals his character as a husbandman who has long patience in waiting