tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8400340423678181828.post4493144279429295773..comments2023-10-04T18:01:43.464-05:00Comments on Dads Teach the Bible: Listen Two TimesMike Cunninghamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05971102076711413290noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8400340423678181828.post-77615929939666380902012-05-10T12:18:22.456-05:002012-05-10T12:18:22.456-05:00Perceptive, helpful, convicting and necessary. Ha...Perceptive, helpful, convicting and necessary. Having one wife and four daughters has taught me at least theoretically if not well practiced that sometimes my solutions aren't needed at all. What is needed is the assurance that I have heard. Most other people are smart enough to know I don't know what to do anyway. But they still need to talk.<br /><br />This is a major theme in Job. He longed for his three friends to hear what he was saying rather then just drive their own irrelevant (and doctrinally wrong) agendas. <br /><br />At least Elihu listened; I think he quoted Job's words twenty-some times in his discourse. I've also been intrigued by situations such as Hezekiah's prayer in Isaiah 37:"O Lord Almighty, God of Israel.... Give ear, O Lord, and hear; open your eyes, O Lord, and see; listen to all the words Sennacherib has sent to insult the living God"chuckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04631165961382647198noreply@blogger.com