All Ears, All Eyes

"If You wake me each morning with the sound of Your loving voice,

I’ll go to sleep each night trusting in You.

Point out the road I must travel;

I’m all ears, all eyes before You."

Ps 143:8

‘I’m all ears, all eyes before You.’ When I read this, I realized I feel a bit more like a giant mouth. I run at the mouth, talking to God, asking God, telling God… My ears are full of the things I’ve already heard, and my eyes only see what I want to see. I feel like I’m always wearing some kind of color-tinted glasses. All I see are things tainted by that color. Things that are shaded by my experiences, my thoughts, and my limited human knowledge. The idea of being all ears, all eyes before the Lord would require me to stop talking, to sit still, to listen, and to allow God to shade my view with Himself.

It’s easy for us to think that if we were indeed awoken to the sound of God’s loving voice each morning, we would trust, we would feel peace, we would know that He is there. But the thing is, in order to hear His voice, we must first listen.

And if He would make our paths undeniably clear to us, tell us the direction in which we should go, then we could be confident in knowing we were on the right track – but in order to see His hand leading us, we must first look. We must ask Him for guidance, and the ability to see His ways. Usually when we are confronted with a decision, or put in a tough position, we weigh our options and make our decisions accordingly. But if we don’t ask, much less sit and listen for an answer, how can we know His will?