More On Psalm 85
Intro: "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God." ~ Matthew 4:4 God is speaking. He speaks. His words are food to us. Psalm 85:8 "I will hear what God the Lord will speak" This is present tense - speaking. Not what He spoke yesterday. It is what He is speaking now. It is what He speaks today, in this time, this hour... "I will hear" There is a choosing for us. A choice we make, to hear or not. To pay Him mind, or to let His voice be crowded out by the din all around us. His words are seeds, they will fall on prepared ground in us or other kinds of ground in us. See the parable of the sower and remember, God's word CAN be taken over within us by the cares of this world. Literally, choked out. Yet, what will God speak to us when we come to Him in a willingness to hear. Do we first of all not recognize that it is the Holy Spirit that brought us to this place... No one comes to