As I reprained before this episode, I was thinking about how it is such a gift to one be able to interact and communicate directly with our king, the creator of the universe, God.

And two, that he hears us and not just how we think he's hearing us, but he hears all of us.

Right.

And the reason we're kind of marveling at that is because this episode's all about selective hearing. A few episodes back, we talked about a time, and we'll rehash it a little bit here today, where we had an argument that I think we're currently kind of at an impasse still just because we're learning to understand one another in different ways.

But I had kind of put this on our radar, like sometimes we hear what we want to hear, and even more than that, we internalize what we believe to be valid when our spouse talks.

And what you're saying is as we were praying before this, you're just thankful that God is not just kind of tuning us out if we don't pray right, or if we pray in any way that offends him, which I'm sure aside from his grace, we can help it offend the righteous Holy God of creation.

Like he knows the motivations behind our prayers.

And so he's not just, I mean, I just think of like our four year old or even our one and a half year old, who's just, you know, they want mine, mine, they just want whatever they see.

And they petition for it so much.

And I get annoyed in my human self, but God does not, right?

He doesn't just say, okay, she just wants this, and this is all I'm hearing.

And, you know, she actually want.

And the reason for that is so profound.

It's not just that God can see the deeper, better places in our hearts.

It's that he sees Christ covering us, and he sees the righteousness of Christ.

And Christ is there at the throne contending for us.

And, you know, and making our prayers right before the righteous father, right?

And so there's a very profound thing there.

And so we're going to talk through how Jesus is the perfect model for our, even our listening and our hearing of one another.

And hopefully you learn something.

We're going to talk through three levels of selective hearing and give you some of the tangible ways to work through each one if you find yourself in a particular level.

So we will see you on the other side.

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