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📖 Bible
Meditation No. 1747
🔆 AATHAVAN –
19.11.2025, Wednesday
“He who turns his ear away from listening to the Law, Even his prayer is an abomination.” — Proverbs 28:9, NASB
All Christians generally
pray. Yet many times, our prayers seem unanswered. This is not God’s fault;
most often, the issue lies within us. If we want God to hear our prayers, we
must first prepare ourselves to be worthy to be heard.
The Bible speaks in many
places about prayers that God does not listen to. First, it clearly says that
God does not hear sinners. “We know that God does not hear sinners; but if
anyone is God-fearing and does His will, He hears him.” — John 9:31, NASB
Next comes pride. God stands
against the proud; therefore He does not listen to their prayers, for He
resists them.
“But He gives a greater
grace. Therefore, it says, ‘GOD IS OPPOSED TO THE PROUD, BUT HE GIVES GRACE TO
THE HUMBLE.’” — James 4:6, NASB
Furthermore, prayer is not
merely shouting our needs at God. Unfortunately, that is what many think prayer
to be, and this becomes the reason why their prayers remain unanswered. Apostle
James says:
“You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you
may spend it on your pleasures.” — James 4:3, NASB. In other words, God
does not answer prayers that are outside His will.
In this list of prayers God
rejects, today’s meditation verse adds another:
“He who turns his ear away from listening to the Law, even his prayer is an
abomination.” This is equivalent to saying, “I don’t want God, I don’t want His
word — I only want what I desire.”
Jesus Christ, the Son, is
Himself the very Word of God. We read this in the Gospel of John: “In the
beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” — John
1:1, NASB
The same Word who existed
with God in the beginning took human form and came into the world: “And the
Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the
only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.” — John 1:14, NASB
These words of Christ form
the Scriptures. To ignore these words is to push Him aside. If we are unwilling
to hear His Word or obey it, how can we claim to be praying to Him? What
meaning does such prayer have? Today’s verse calls such prayer an abomination.
Many Christians today do not
give heed to the Scriptures. They give more importance to the teachings of the
denomination they belong to than to the Word of God. But when troubles and
burdens press them, they run searching for ministers who preach the Word. If
the living Word—Christ Himself—dwells in us, we will not need to run anywhere.
When we incline our ears to
the Scriptures and obey them, we will certainly experience God answering our
prayers.

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