INSIGHT FOR TODAY WITH CHUCK SWINDOLL.
Chuck Swindoll’s ‘Insight for Today’ Daily Devotional is here. Insight for Today provides practical, relevant insight into today’s issues with Biblical principles applied. This devotional will help you connect with God on a daily basis, while also equipping you with a Bible-based approach to transforming your everyday life. Insight for Today” is a daily devotional written by Chuck Swindoll.
The Topic of Chuck Swindoll Daily Devotional 10th October 2024 is ” Are You Listening?”.
Scriptures: James 1:19
TODAY’S INSIGHT – 10TH OCTOBER 2024.
HOW OFTEN HAVE YOU HEARD someone say, “Are you listening to me?”
Let’s be honest: in a culture awash in cell phones, social media, and other addictive technologies, we’re losing the fine art of listening.
I don’t mean just hearing. Not simply smiling and nodding while somebody’s mouth is moving. Not merely staying quiet until it’s “your turn” to chime in. All of us are good at that game.
Here’s how James puts it in his letter: “My dear brothers and sisters: You must all be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to get angry” (James 1:19).
Children suffer most when we don’t listen as they struggle to express their feelings. Deep down in their fragile, inner wells are a multitude of needs, questions, hurts, and longings. The busy, insensitive, preoccupied parent, steamrolling through the day, misses many a cue and sails right past choice moments that may never be repeated.
Or how about people we encounter who don’t know Christ? Here’s a question you’ve never been asked: Have you ever practiced listening evangelism? Unless we’re thoughtful, we usually unload the goods and go for the scalp. But people bruise easily. Sometimes irreparably. Everyone appreciates when we genuinely listen to their stories. That’s what Jesus did any time He encountered someone in need. Like the Samaritan woman who had come to the well for water. After listening carefully to her responses and discerning her need, Jesus tenderly replied, “If you only knew the gift God has for you and who you are speaking to, you would ask me, and I would give you living water” (John 4:10).
Listening allows us to see deeper into another’s heart. Only then can we offer the help and hope they need.
Solomon said it best when he wrote about having “ears to hear and eyes to see.” He then added this reassurance: “both are gifts from the LORD” (Proverbs 20:12).
Two ears. Two eyes. Only one mouth. Maybe that should tell us something. I challenge you to join me in becoming a better listener. With your spouse. Your friends. Your kids. Your boss. Your teacher. Your pupils. Your neighbors.
The better we listen, the more God can speak through us.
About Chuck Swindoll Daily Devotional “Today’s Insight”.
Today’s Insight is written by Chucks Swindoll. Chuck Swindoll has devoted his life to the accurate, practical teaching and application of God’s Word and His grace. Since 1988 he has served as the founder and senior pastor-teacher of Stonebriar Community Church in Texas, but his listening audience extends far beyond a local church body. The radio broadcast of this devotional program has aired for more than 35 years. Read more.
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