I again refer to comments by Michael Card in his book, Scribbling in the Sand. In his courtship of the woman who became his wife, Michael was advised by a dear friend, “If you really want to show her you love her, . . . listen to her.” I took his advice, and that girl has been my wife for twenty years. Later I extended my understanding of this adage to my relationship with the Lord when I began to realize how much I wanted to show him the extent of my love for him. If we desire to demonstrate our love for God, shouldn’t we invest ourselves in listening to him? Isn’t it true that he demonstrates his love to us by listening endlessly to our prayers? . . . listening to the silence of prayer.
In my books and in my blogs I repeatedly emphasize that in repentance we have had the indwelling of the Holy Spirit restored by the grace of God through the sin sacrifice of His Son, Jesus Christ. Yes, we can pray TO Him, but we can also hear FROM Him in our time. By our examining the concordance between neuroscience and Scripture we have gained a small understanding of how this loving communion works.