I don’t want to hear it. This is my response when I am about to hear something I don’t want to face. I don’t want to face challenging circumstances. I don’t want to make hard changes. I don’t want one more thing to do.

I do the same thing with God. I put my fingers in my ears and say, “la la la la la, I’m not listening to you.” I’m certain I sound like a disrespectful teenager. It comes when I am being asked to do something hard, something that takes commitment, something that requires me to change.

Most recently it has been yet another dietary change. The nudges have been coming for months, but let’s face it, I like cheese. Giving up cheese, particularly smoked Gouda, shouldn’t be a major deal. However, this is just one more of many dietary changes, adjustment etc that I have made over the years to improve my health and I don’t want to give up one more thing I enjoy.

As I continued with, “I don’t want to hear it” my body and spirit kept telling me otherwise until I had no choice but to listen.

^12-15 “I still have many things to tell you, but you can’t handle them now. But when the Friend comes, the Spirit of the Truth, he will take you by the hand and guide you into all the truth there is. He won’t draw attention to himself, but will make sense out of what is about to happen and, indeed, out of all that I have done and said. He will honor me; he will take from me and deliver it to you. Everything the Father has is also mine. That is why I’ve said, ‘He takes from me and delivers to you.’ (John 16:12-15 MSG).

God nudges me, the Holy Spirit guides and as much as I have seen the benefits of trusting that guidance, I still find myself saying, “I don’t want to hear it.” I need to focus on the gifts I have received from following the Spirit rather than what I perceive as something that is hard. I am still a work in progress.

Do you struggle to follow the guidance of the Spirit? Do you want to cover your ears and pretend not to hear? Share your experience here and breathe life and bring hope to others.