According to Prevention magazine, our ears continue to grow throughout the course of our lifetime. When we are very young, they are proportional to our body size. After age 10, the growth slows down but continues steadily until we die. So using this logic, we should have better hearing as we get older… larger ears means better sound processing right? Not really. In fact, as we age, our hearing ability actually decreases.
Sad but true.
But there is one aspect of our hearing that should improve as we get older… hearing from God. Why? Because if we’re doing it right when we’re young… we should be getting to know Him more and more! Spending time in His word… hearing messages in His church… writing about Him in our journals… telling others about Him when the opportunity comes… We should be growing closer to Him… and His voice should be getting louder as the shadows grow longer. 2 Corinthians 4 tells us that although we are physically failing over time… we are actually being “renewed day by day” by God. Want to know what God sounds like? Spend time with Him. Pray. Ask Him to tell you and teach you what you need to know. And as the years pass… your ability to hear physically may fade… but your capacity to hear from the One that matters will sharpen.
