It's not up to the king to try to go chasing His subjects around, screaming & hollering at them to try to get them to do what He wants. He isn't going to go chasing you around trying to beat you over the head with a Bible to get you to listen! But you must come to Him with quietness & respect, & sincerely & in trembling present your petition, & wait silently to get the answer.
If you're in a room full of people & the TV is on, if they keep raising their voices & drowning out the TV, no matter how loud the volume is, you won't get what it has to say. And the Lord, unlike the TV, will just shut up if you don't listen! When Israel stopped listening & ceased to believe what God had to say & quit doing what He commanded, He just stopped talking to them for nearly three hundred years between the Testaments! God does not like to talk to either deaf, unbelieving or unheeding ears! So He just shuts up!
But if you seek the Lord, you will hear from the Lord & be led of the Lord. He says, "Call unto Me, & I will answer thee, & show thee great & mighty things, which thou knowest not!" (Jer.33:3)
If you're in a room full of people & the TV is on, if they keep raising their voices & drowning out the TV, no matter how loud the volume is, you won't get what it has to say. And the Lord, unlike the TV, will just shut up if you don't listen! When Israel stopped listening & ceased to believe what God had to say & quit doing what He commanded, He just stopped talking to them for nearly three hundred years between the Testaments! God does not like to talk to either deaf, unbelieving or unheeding ears! So He just shuts up!
But if you seek the Lord, you will hear from the Lord & be led of the Lord. He says, "Call unto Me, & I will answer thee, & show thee great & mighty things, which thou knowest not!" (Jer.33:3)
