To hear, to see, to do

Hebrews 2:1-10
  

           I suppose it could be argued that I never shut up. I having something to say every day. Every morning, in the middle of the night, I get up and write this blog.  For 541 days so far. I feel blessed to be able to do it and blessed that my husband says nothing when I roll out of bed at 3am to meditate, write and eventually prepare for work.

            Actually, I like to shut up and listen. I like to think I do it better than many although my husband might disagree. It is only in listening with our eyes and ears that we can sense what really is going on around us. People speak with their bodies all day long and the words often convey deeper truths.

          For these reasons, I felt compelled to note that we are born with two eyes, two ears and two hands. But note, only one mouth. As Judge Judy would say, put your listening ears on! The world would be a much better place if we all would listen more, really use our eyes to see what is going on. That is, really seeing things, beauty , sadness etc. Finally, use our hands to help. If all we do is speak we are like that proverbial gong that does nothing.

         Spend a day listening at least twice as much as you speak. Listen to the words, look at the posture, the intonation, the joy or the sadness. Once you have really listened and have really been looking, then open your mouth and use your hands. If we do this, if I do this, my words and actions are more likely to be compassionate and loving. Just a thought.

           

Therefore we must pay greater attention to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away from it. For if the message declared through angels was valid, and every transgression or disobedience received a just penalty, how can we escape if we neglect so great a salvation? It was declared at first through the Lord, and it was attested to us by those who heard him, while God added his testimony by signs and wonders and various miracles, and by gifts of the Holy Spirit, distributed according to his will.

Now God did not subject the coming world, about which we are speaking, to angels. ⁶But someone has testified somewhere,
‘What are human beings that you are mindful of them,
   or mortals, that you care for them?
You have made them for a little while lower than the angels;
   you have crowned them with glory and honour,
subjecting all things under their feet.’
Now in subjecting all things to them, God left nothing outside their control. As it is, we do not yet see everything in subjection to them, but we do see Jesus, who for a little while was made lower than the angels, now crowned with glory and honour because of the suffering of death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.

It was fitting that God, for whom and through whom all things exist, in bringing many children to glory, should make the pioneer of their salvation perfect through sufferings.