Daily Meditation - Saturday 20September 2008 - WHICH TYPE OF HEARER AM I?

BarbaraTherese · Sep 18, 2008

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**How good are you at listening, **

especially for the word of God?

God is always ready to speak to each of us and to give us understanding of his word.
Jesus’ parable of the sower is aimed at the hearers of his word.

There are different ways of accepting God’s word and they produce different kinds of fruit accordingly.

There is the prejudiced hearer who has a shut mind.
Such a person is unteachable and blind to the things of God.
Then there is the shallow hearer who fails to think things out or think them through; such a person lacks spiritual depth.
They may initially respond with an emotional fervor; but when it wears off their mind wanders to something else.
Another type of hearer is the person who has many interests or cares, but who lacks the ability to hear or comprehend what is truly important. Such a person is for ever too busy to pray or too preoccupied to study and meditate on God’s word.
He or she may work so hard that they are too tired to even think of anything else but their work.

Then there is the one whose mind is open. Such a person is
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