Living the Good Life: Living Listening

Continuing our series Living the Good Life, we learn from 1 Samuel 3 that living listening to God is essential to good life. When God spoke to Samuel, he couldn't recognize Him because he was unfamiliar with God's voice; he knew ABOUT Him, but he didn't truly KNOW Him. A lack of relationship with God means that we will not be able to understand when and how He is speaking.

Living listening to God is paced, spaced, and graced--steady, intentional, and blessed--rather than crazed, mazed, and lazed--hectic, uncertain, and apathetic. It prepares us to live in this world, impact it, advance the Kingdom, and do good. Living listening to God's leading, and acting on God's leading, is what we were made to do. It's how we were made to live. Living listening begins with esteeming the Bible daily, responding faithfully, and allowing God's voice in our lives to be a frequent discussion among believers.