Having our Ears to the Ground is the foundation of global mission outreach and answered prayers for the hurting world.
I noticed that many of us well meaning Christians are quick to disregard, ignore and even disengage when we are called to ground our ears. Our culture teaches us to be private and protectively segregative, as if compatible thing for the Good News… Well it is not, the Gospel is typical peace work and this work gets messy and dirty. Those who wish to stay comfortable in a small circle of like minded people of the same faith, race, gender, economic social status or geographic location definitely many such people will not really have the opportunity to share in the Shalom Vision of God, and what a life wasted if we never truly participate in the grander heart beat of the Universe. If God did not spare His own Son, but actually sent Him to a people who did not know him and who would potentially take His life… Then who are we to disregard the pains of the communities around us and beyond the seas! When we find our ears off the ground then we have lost touch with the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.
When our ears are off the ground, we have departed from the constructive stage where we continue to share the same challenge of interests, values and positions even when we disagree. When our ears are off the ground, we stop focusing on solving the challenge at hand and we start to see each other as the problem known as personal antagonism. When our ears are off the ground, we stop talking to each other and we start talking about each other known as triangulation, as issues proliferate from specific to general, hostilities are guaranteed to happen and before we know it we have polarized individuals and people groups. The sole purpose of the Gospel is to break these such polarizations and allow people to live in peace. We are called to trust more, do more direct contact more accurate communication and practice less violence… This is called Grounding our ears.
I challenge you to find places where your ears are not grounded and plug on afresh. This is how we lessen degrees of separation between the Blessed Peace Makers and ultimately make the world a better place.
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