Isaiah 55:3 Incline your ear, and come to me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you… To incline your ear and hearken diligently unto God is to follow the Divine teachings as to the aims and methods of life. And God has a thousand voices for those who will hearken. 1. The voice of experience is His, and experience is loud and emphatic in assuring us that "if we live after the flesh we shall die; but if we, through the Spirit, do mortify the deeds of the body we shall live." 2. The voice in the heart and conscience is His, and if you will listen in the silence of the mind you will hear the sweet parental accents speaking to your deepest filial affection, and saying, "My son, give Me thine heart." 3. And the voice of inspiration is His, speaking through those who have seen most deeply into the Divine meaning of life, and the conclusion of the whole matter with them has been, "Fear God and keep His commandments, for this is the whole duty of man." 4. And the voice of Christ" is the voice of God, and." "Jesus stood and cried,, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto Me and drink. (C. Short, M. A.) Parallel Verses KJV: Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David. |
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