JANUARY 5
EARS OPENED IN PRESSURE
“He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression
(Hebrew word for ‘oppression’ is ‘pressured’).”
(Job 36:15)
We sometimes wonder why all this PRESSURE is coming our way, and for sure there
are manifold reasons, for God works many things through the same set of
circumstances. But one of the purposes of pressure is to help open our ears,
pressing out all of that which clogged the passage and kept the TRUE SOUNDS from
entering in.
Paul exhorted the disciples to continue in the faith, and “that we must through
much tribulation (Greek, ‘PRESSURE’ enter into the kingdom of God,” (Acts
14:22). Thus we see a dual working to this pressure, it is pressing us OUT OF
THE OLD and pressing us INTO THE NEW. God is a wise economist; He can use the
same pain to be death pangs to the old, and birth pangs for the new. The same
pressure that is pushing out all the old debris that has clogged our hearing is
also preparing the way for the entrance of the new message from God.
“Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold your God
shall come with vengeance, even God with a recompense; He will come and save
you. Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall
be unstopped,” (Isa. 35:4-5). We rejoice, this is a precious promise, and we
reach out to embrace its victory. Ah, but the preceding verse prepares the way:
“The wilderness and the solitary way shall be glad for them.” It takes the
processings of the wilderness disciplines and the solitary place to prepare us
to hear even more clearly the VOICE of the Lord.
“He that is of God heareth God’s words,” (John 8:47). Called aside from the
multitudes, processed by the pressures of the day, His apprehended ones are
hearing His voice. They are His firstfruits of a new creation order, and they
shall declare His praises to the ends of the earth.
Lord, my ears, they must be opened if Thy message I would
hear,
Spare Thou not the cleansing process till Thy still small voice is clear.
Ray Prinzing
Sister Doris Prinzing
1130 Allumbaugh St. Apt 257
Boise, Id 83704-8700
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