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Luke 8:18 Therefore consider carefully how you listen. Whoever has will be given more; whoever does not have, even what they think they have will be taken from them.”
That short phrase struck me to day as if I had never hear it. "Consider carefully how you listen."
akouete
ἀκούετε ;
you hear akoúō – properly, to hear (listen); (figuratively) to hear God's voice which prompts Him to birth faith
But to hear and to listen can be quite different. Almost leads more to "understand" Consider carefully how you understand.
16 “No one lights a lamp and hides it in a clay jar or puts it under a bed. Instead, they put it on a stand, so that those who come in can see the light.
17 For there is nothing hidden that will not be disclosed, and nothing concealed that will not be known or brought out into the open."
It is difficult not to bring this back to the political understandings in our country and in the world. Each position seems so sure of its own understanding, its own hearing and ability to listen. But listening first takes silence. I think of being home alone and hearing a strange sound. What was that? Turn the tv off and try to get as quiet as possible and then just listen closely. To listen without preconceived notions?
"Consider carefully how you listen."
That short phrase struck me to day as if I had never hear it. "Consider carefully how you listen."
akouete
ἀκούετε ;
you hear akoúō – properly, to hear (listen); (figuratively) to hear God's voice which prompts Him to birth faith
But to hear and to listen can be quite different. Almost leads more to "understand" Consider carefully how you understand.
16 “No one lights a lamp and hides it in a clay jar or puts it under a bed. Instead, they put it on a stand, so that those who come in can see the light.
17 For there is nothing hidden that will not be disclosed, and nothing concealed that will not be known or brought out into the open."
It is difficult not to bring this back to the political understandings in our country and in the world. Each position seems so sure of its own understanding, its own hearing and ability to listen. But listening first takes silence. I think of being home alone and hearing a strange sound. What was that? Turn the tv off and try to get as quiet as possible and then just listen closely. To listen without preconceived notions?
"Consider carefully how you listen."
