WHILST chatting with a friend of mine, I picked up a piece of used sellotape from the floor.
As I scrunched it in my hand, my friend’s face lit up, and smiling, he said: ‘I can hear that’.
He had been fitted with new hearing aids and was delighted he could hear the sound.
When we see a child step out into the road, the first thing we do is shout ‘stop.’
Hearing well and obeying the command can be life-saving for a child – and for us.
There are so many voices in the world, but we need to hear the right ones.
Crowds following Jesus to see his miracles and hear his teaching.
One thing he taught them was: ‘I am the bread of life, and whoever eats this bread will live forever.’
In John chapter 6, Jesus says: ‘This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
Hearing this, many turned away, saying: ‘this is hard teaching’ and ‘who can accept it?’
Jesus asked his disciples if they were going to leave too.
Peter replied: ‘Lord, to whom shall we go?
‘You have the words of eternal life.’
We need to listen to the one who has the words of eternal life.
Ian Stewart is a member of Christ Church Wokingham, which meets at St Crispins’ School every Sunday at 10.30am.
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