Listening to God's Will

When you do all the talking you only learn what you already know.
--Anonymous

I was grateful this morning to come to the end of St. Luke's discourse to the Pharisees and Scribes. It was a long week of "Woe to you" statements and I was relieved to see the end of the discourse. It did leave me wondering, this morning, what it truly means for us to be attentive to God's will. 

We are so conditioned to place our needs before God (and rightly so) that I sometimes wonder if we take the time needed to also listen to that will. Hence today's quote above. There is something to listening to God's voice and to be attentive to what His will is for us each day.

We place our needs before God each day and then we need to remind ourselves to listen for the response.

We will find that God is a sympathetic and compassionate listener who truly wants to see us succeed in life and become the wonderful gift that He has created us to be. The gift is in our 'becoming' and our being transformed by the experience of each day. To truly allow that to happen entails us to take time to listen to God's voice in the busyness of our lives. 

To be attentive to that voice and to allow it to change us.