Attentiveness

Hebrews 2:1 - We must pay the most careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.

Tiny Trickle
There once was a little Dutch boy who saved his nation through his attentiveness. He was alone in the countryside one day when he
heard trickling water. Focusing on the sound of the water’s trickle, he traced it to the source, where he found a leak in the dike.

Having been attentive to the conversation of adults, the boy knew that the dikes around Holland kept the ocean from flooding their towns and that even a trickle of water could quickly erode the soil. Connecting what he heard—the sound of the water—with what he saw—the hole in the dike—and taking into consideration the purpose and importance of the dikes, the boy determined to stop the trickle. So he stuck a
finger into the hole in the dike.

There the boy stood all day and through the night, until he was discovered the following morning. Help was then summoned, the hole
patched, and the dike and villages of Holland were secured. From generation to generation, this heroic storyhas been retold—the story of
a boy who saved his nation because he was attentive.

Perhaps of even greater importance than knowing how to solve big problems is being attentive to small problems and tracing them to their
source. How much better it is to stop a “trickle” than to try to contain
a raging flood.

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The saying goes that knowledge is power.  Actually, the truth is that “Applied Knowledge” is power.  The writer of Hebrews gives us instructions to pay very close attention to the Godly instruction that we have received so that we do not drift away.  It is important not only to hear but to act on what God has given us through His Word.  It is in the application that we see the Power of God at work in our lives.  May we all be attentive and obedient to the voice of the Holy Spirit in our lives each and every day.

Have a Magnificent Monday!

Scott Forsythe