Guard Your Ears

Hebrews 2:2

New International Version (NIV)

Warning to Pay Attention

“² We must pay the most careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.”

Face it, we live in a media consumed world, everywhere we go there is loud music playing, people’s phone with the latest songs as ringtones, commercials, television shows, and movies playing all around us. It is impossible to completely shut ourselves off from everything, so we have to be mindful of what we allow ourselves to listen to whenever we can help it.

What we allow through our ear gate stay with us, they are seeds that get dropped into our soul and either starts to burrow and grow or gets snatched up by the word we use to get rid of it.

A way of telling if something you listened to has burrowed and started to bear fruit is when you have those times when you do, say or think about something in a contrary way to what you use to.  You would be shocked as to how much words from a random song on the radio can lodge itself into your soul and later gets used in a conversation that you didn’t know you even listened to those words being said before.

Today more than ever, we have to stay guarded spiritually. There are too many different tactics that the world has to use at their disposal to get Believers off their path with Christ. Satan will use anything to lure people into his trap, even the little pleasures that we all enjoy, like music and gossip shows.

Whenever you hear something contrary to what the word says you have to cast it down and not claim anything they say so that those seeds won’t bear fruit.