Listen to what God is saying. Learning to listen.

Listen to what God is saying. Learn to listen.

When Jesus spoke about living water, the Samaritan woman thought about the water in the well.

She heard what Jesus said, but she still could not see what He was revealing. Christ was speaking about something deeper, but she was still focused on what was visible and immediate.

That happens to us too.

Many times, God speaks, but we want to grasp everything through logic, reason, and the rush to understand. But God’s wisdom is higher than ours. We were not called to master what God says with our natural mind, but to listen, receive, and live.

In 1 Corinthians 2, Paul shows that the wisdom of God is not known by human standards. He reminds us that there are things no eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no human heart has fully imagined, but God has revealed them through His Spirit. Then he shows that the natural person does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, because they are spiritually discerned.

That does not call us to explain everything. It calls us to have a heart that is sensitive before God.

That is what happened in Jesus’ encounter with the Samaritan woman. At first, she was still thinking in a limited way. But as she listened to Jesus, something began to be revealed. And what she could not see before slowly started to touch her life.

The same is true for us.

Not everything is revealed right away.

Not everything will be reached through reason.

But God speaks, God reveals, and God leads.

That is why we need to listen. Listen with the heart. Meditate on what God is saying. And live what He shows us.

Life with God is not about trying to control His wisdom. It is a path of faith, listening, and surrender.

Today, do not try to master what God is saying.

Listen.

Receive.

And live.

1 ¶ And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God.

2 For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

3 And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.

4 And my speech and my preaching [was] not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:

5 That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

6 ¶ Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought:

7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, [even] the hidden [wisdom], which God ordained before the world unto our glory:

8 Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known [it], they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.

10 But God hath revealed [them] unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.

11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.

12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.

13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know [them], because they are spiritually discerned.

15 But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.

16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.

10 Jesus answered and said unto her, ‹If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.›

11 The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water?

12 Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?

13 Jesus answered and said unto her, ‹Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again:›

14 ‹But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.›

15 The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw.