My mother was saying that one aspect of listening is analysing what a person says and what or who brought him or her or child to say what she say. It's when the predudice o f the speaker show up. How or she act and against who is him against. And Jer. 12:2...

the listener has to analyse the speaker to see what motivates a person to make such comments. How one expresses oneself is how one expects to be heard. If a man say, or husband beat his wife for some reason. They may be self assertive that that is the right thing to do. A man may confess this to the authorities. A person may choose not repent of this attitude.

Another says that he is an alcholic because God loves him that way. In Summary, probably in both cases the man before and after don't change because he thinks God loves him that way...

"I don't observe Lent, but in this is true of Lent, we will analyse and observe and make a very specific effort to listen. When we fast, it is when we examine ourselves, and see ourselves as we we really are and make effort to lend ear to God and his instructions."

One of the first instructions is that he wants us to have mercy and sacrifice, such as lip service adn rituals. Our sincerity in caring is what he want to see.

Amen

BSOM\thbg

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