**just posting this after months of hiatus, but Sunday marks 8 years of this hearing loss journey**
Today, after “adulting” most of the morning—sweeping, mopping, dusting, etc. I settled down to read “My Utmost for His Highest” which I pick up when I remember. One snippet of today’s devotional stood out to me.
Oswald wrote “Get to the end of yourself where you can do nothing, but where He does everything”.
I was struck by how much this resembles the relationship I have with my hearing aids. They do everything to make me here at a normal level. My ears can’t help themselves. I cannot live the same way without my aids. They resemble the true Helper.
And yet, wearing them is a choice. I can decide whether or not to put them in, to utilize their vital help in my daily life. In a somewhat similar way, I can choose to listen to the Holy Spirit, to daily turn to His voice, his leading , his essential aid.
We tend to see the Holy Spirit like Jiminy Cricket—advice giver, someone on the side to guide us. Yet, he’s more than that. He is vital. He is how we can Hear. He is our ever present help.
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