Come on, breathe!
Many of us have a tendency to listen, but be less than attentive to what we are hearing - something which quite honestly results in a little less than "perfect obedience" when it comes to us listening to God. It should not surprise us God puts these concepts of "listening" with "obedience" and "learning" with "living". What we hear, we are to respond to in a prompt manner. What we come to know, we are to live out. It is repeated over and over in scripture. In fact, James warns against being a "hearer" and not a "doer" of the Word - Don’t fool yourself into thinking that you are a listener when you are anything but, letting the Word go in one ear and out the other. Act on what you hear! Those who hear and don’t act are like those who glance in the mirror, walk away, and two minutes later have no idea who they are, what they look like . (James 1:22-23 MSG) This "in one ear, out the other" thing runs