Tingling Ears

# 51 – Today's Du-votional comes from 1Sa 3:11“Then the LORD said to Samuel: "Behold, I will do something in Israel at which both ears of everyone who hears it will tingle.” God is about to do something so astounding to Eli and his sons that when people hear of it their ears will tingle. What a strange sensation....tingling ears. What does it mean? The Hebrew word means “tinkle.” It's not a literal tinkling of our ears but rather a resounding. In other words when people hear of it, they cannot help but think about it over and over again. It will be the sort of thing that people will not be able to put out of their mind. This word shows up in two other places in the OT 2 Ki 21:12, and Jer 19:3, and both times it is a reaction to the severe judgment of God involving the Babylonian captivity. It was so improbable and at the same time horrific that people could not put it out of their mind. But alas, how quickly we forget the reasons for God's judgment in the first place. What were the people doing that caused God to judge them so severely? They had turned to idolatry. This idol worship went so far as to involve child sacrifice! We read about it in Jer 19:4 "Because they have forsaken Me and made this an alien place, because they have burned incense in it to other gods whom neither they, their fathers, nor the kings of Judah have known, and have filled this place with the blood of the innocents” Friends, it is my hope that these words from Jeremiah would cause our ears to tingle. I hope and pray we will not be able to get them out of our mind because in America, we have filled the land with the blood of over 50 million innocent unborn children through legalized abortion. How much longer will God withhold judgment on a “place filled with the blood of innocents?”Tingling Ears. What Does It mean? “….filled with the blood of innocents......filled with the blood of innocents. Tinkle, tinkle, tinkle.” Lord have mercy on us and forgive us.