“The Lord GOD has given Me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him who is weary. He awakens Me morning by morning, He awakens My ear to hear as the learned. The Lord GOD has opened My ear; and I was not rebellious, nor did I turn away.” Isaiah 50:4-5
According to this Old Testament prophecy about the Lord’s life, the Father woke Him morning by morning and opened His ear to hear His voice. Then in the Gospels we observe the way He lived His life from morning to night — where He went, those He saw, those He prayed for, those He related to — how He went about His daily life. He always did the things that pleased the Father. His intimacy with the Father was the factor that supplied the ability to live a compatible life with the Father.
By observing the Lord’s life of intimacy and compatibility with the Father in the Gospels, we discover the nature of the life that is now dwelling in us. It is a life that thrives on intimacy with the Father (Gal. 4:6; Rom. 8:15). It is a life that always desires to prove, by testing, what is well pleasing to the Lord (Rom. 12:2; Eph. 5:10). It is a life that knows compatibility with the Father’s life-voice in all the details of daily life (Eph. 4:20-21). Now this life is living in us.
May the Lord grant to us multiplied grace in our spirit, so that the love of God, the grace of Christ, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit would be our daily portion (2 Cor. 13:14). As we inwardly merge with the intimacy in the Triune God, we will not only abide in His love, but we will develop a finer and more delicate sensitivity to the consciousness of life within us. It is by the love of God and the grace of Christ flowing in the fellowship of the Holy Spirit that we can be a person that is compatible with the Lord’s voice. Amen!