Wrote this a while ago, I just forgot to post it. But it’s posted now. 🙂
A lot of you are probably wondering if I’m wearing hearing aids again and to answer your question, I am. Just in one ear though. And there will be days where I don’t wear them. I had forgotten how much noise there actually is. Talk about being overwhelmed. Haha. Anyway, in Florida God crossed my path with someone who has been wearing hearing aids for 30 years and every year he gets a new set to test them out for the company. He has offered to give me his old (fairly new model) set to me. Which is a blessing,because hearing aids are expensive! So I just need to get new molds and get it programmed for my ears.
I’m not wearing them again because I’m giving up on God, not because I don’t believe He’ll heal me, not because ‘times up and God failed’. I believe that God can heal me and it still may happen someday, it’s simply not now. And I still have complete faith in God that His timing and plan is perfect.
The reason God had me get rid of my hearing aids was because it had become an idol to me, it was something I placed my identity in. I threw them in the lake (read about it HERE) just a week after the trip started and all year it has been a journey of spiritual healing. He healed my heart (read about it HERE) and I think that was one of His purposes in this. I learned so much and I believe that had I kept my hearing aids I would have missed out on the blessings of learning about and knowing more of who God is in an intimate way. I wouldn’t be free from my hearing aids. And just because I wear hearing aids again doesn’t mean that my spiritual journey will stop. That will never stop. And I’m not saying that I wouldn’t have learned anything about who God is if I had kept my hearing aids. In my mind, it’s about obedience and having faith. Are you willing to do what God calls you to do regardless of what it is? Are you willing to trust that God has a better way that you can’t see?
With all that said I’ll end with this-I am no longer a slave to my hearing aids. I have found freedom in Jesus Christ.
