Can you imagine being deaf? And then being healed by Jesus?
What would it be like to have the first voice you ever heard be the voice of Jesus Himself?
We get to hear His voice in His Word. Do you love its sound? Do you long to hear it more and more?
I am hoping to get to the place where my heart feels the way Winslow lays it out here:
Believer in Jesus! blessed are your ears, for they hear. You have heard the Shepherd’s voice, and it has won your heart, enkindled your affection, and bowed your whole soul to its gentle and gracious supremacy. Oh! is there, amid the voices of the universe, one like unto Christ’s? Is there one so powerful, so winning, so gentle, so sweet? Lord! were all other sounds hushed in the profoundest depths of eternal silence, all other voices forever quenched in the stillness of everlasting death, to hear Your gentle tones of pardon, peace, and love quelling my fears, soothing my sorrows, assuring me of an interest in Your salvation, calling me Your own, and promising that I shall be with You forever, oh, that were enough for the eternity of my being!
Octavius Winslow