Ecclesiastes 5:2 “Don't shoot off your mouth, or speak before you think. Don't be too quick to tell God what you think he wants to hear. God's in charge, not you—the less you speak, the better.”
Eavesdropping can be fun, exciting, and hurtful. The people at my work and I always joke about trying to eavesdrop on closed-door conversations. There’s not a lot of those conversations that go on and when they do happen it always turns out to be a very interesting predicament. It adds for excitement when days tend to be slow. A lot of times you have to hear people’s conversations when you really don’t want to. There have been a few times where I was at the mall trying to shop and couldn’t help overhearing a loud conversation that involved inappropriate content that I could have done without. Or the times when someone is talking about a really gross topic that makes your skin crawl and you just want to plug your ears while making a la la la noise to drown them out. Somehow, though, you always end up having to hear about it anyways. Sometimes we do this with God. He starts speaking something to us that we don’t want to hear so we plug our ears and try to drown Him out. But, sooner or later we end up having to hear it anyways. We should learn from Jonah who had God speak to him but chose to run and hide instead of listening. It didn’t take long before God had him doing what He had told him in the first place. Don’t think you’re exempt from God doing drastic things in your life to catch your attention. He may not have you swallowed by a fish, but you never know. I would rather not try and find out.
Matthew 13:11: “Your ears are open but you don't hear a thing. Your eyes are awake but you don't see a thing. The people are blockheads! They stick their fingers in their ears so they won't have to listen; they screw their eyes shut so they won't have to look, so they won't have to deal with me face-to-face and let me heal them.”
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