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IS GOD LISTENING? Today's Devotional Read: 1 John 5:13–15 Bible in a Year: Jeremiah 15–17; 2 Timothy 2 If we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. 1 John 5:14 When I served on my church’s congregational care team, one of my duties was to pray over the requests penciled on pew cards during the services. For an aunt’s health. For a couple’s finances. For a grandson’s discovery of God. Rarely did I hear the results of these prayers. Most were anonymous, and I had no way of knowing how God had responded. I confess that at times I wondered, Was He really listening? Was anything happening as a result of my prayers? Over our lifetimes, most of us question, “Does God hear me?” I remember my own Hannah-like pleas for a that went unanswered for years. And there were my pleas that my father find faith, yet he died without any apparent confession. Etched across the millennia are myriad instances of God’s ear bending to listen: to Israel’s groans under slavery (Exodus 2:24); to Moses on Mount Sinai (Deuteronomy 9:19); to Joshua at Gilgal (Joshua 10:14); to Hannah’s prayers for a (1 Samuel 1:10–17); to David crying out for deliverance from Saul (2 Samuel 22.7). First John 5:14 crescendos, “If we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.” The word for “hears” means to pay attention and to respond on the basis of having heard. As we go to God today, may we have the confidence of His listening ear spanning the history of His people. He hears our pleas. Pause to consider what you’ve most recently asked of God. What motivated you to ask? How can you know that God hears you? Father, I come asking and trusting You to hear me because You say that You do. 
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Many years ago, I kept a journal of prayers and answers. Many were answered fairly soon..... some took a long time, and others seemed to go unanswered, but I usually gained understanding of the reason. Be a prism, spreading God's light and love, not a mirror reflecting the world's hatred.
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