Tom's Message - August 18
Hey, everyone!
Wow! What a BEEEEAAAAUUUUUUUUUTIFUL day ahead!! SOOOOO thankful!!
I’m just sitting up here outside at Triple C (this pew is one of my happy places!) listening to the birds (mostly crows!), cars go by, and…let’s see…uh…Dvorák…on my little round speaker!
Y’know, I heard something amazing the other day…
Come to think of it, if you hear anything at all, it’s amazing!
Do you know what a miracle your ears are???
I know they’re kind of crazy looking, stuck to the sides of an otherwise round head like the original “floppy disks”! But your ears are just perfect for the job they do!!
Did ya know that…
Your eardrum can tell the difference between all the different sounds of all the different voices in a conversation even tho’ it’s only moving one ten-thousands of a centimeter!?
It can “hear” a pin drop and a New York subway pass by, which is one hundred TRILLION times louder!!
You know those three little bones inside your ear? They move all the time! And they’re exactly the same size today as the day you were born! They’re the smallest bones you have but they’re “fully-grown size” from the beginning! The only bones you’ve got that never have to grow!
So, sound apparently comes in your ears in vibrating molecule “waves”. “Middle C” on the piano is exactly 256 waves per second! A normal human can “hear” all the different vibrations from between 20 and 20,000(!!!) waves per second!!
Your ear can tell the difference between 300,000 various sounds!!
You know how your ear has that rounded kind of “rim” around the top of it? That’s not just to keep the rain drops out! It actually captures sound waves as they go in and tell you if they're coming from above you or below you! When Juliet said, “Romeo! Romeo! Where forth art thou?” that rounded rim (the “helix”) told him she was talking from up above on the balcony!
There’s a little flap right over the hole where your ear hole goes into your head. It doesn’t just keep bugs from flying in there! The “tragus” actually does the same thing your big ear flap does, only its specialty is catching the sounds that come from behind you! Check out Luke 24:15! It’s how they knew He was back there!
Jesus said, “Anyone who has an ear, let them hear!” (Matthew 11:15, 13:9, 13:43)
Because your ears are perfectly made for hearing!!
So, here’s the amazing thing I heard someone say this week…
“In Revelation 3:20 Jesus says, ‘Behold I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice, and opens the door, I will come in and eat with that person, and they with Me!’
Did you notice that when Jesus knocks at your heart, He knocks, not with His fist, but with His voice? He knocks with His words!”
(Notice how He said, “I stand at the door and knock. if anyone hears My”…not “knocks”…but “voice”…!)
Wow! That means that when Jesus says things like…
“Let not your heart be troubled!”…or…
“My peace I give you”… or…
“Take heart! Your sins are forgiven!”…or…
“Come unto Me all you who are weary and heavy-laden…”
that’s Him knocking at your heart!
With His words, not His fist!
Who wouldn’t let Someone so sweet and kind come in??
Anyone who has an ear, let him hear!