Hear we go! It's funny that it didn't occur to me to explain this. My brother pointed out what could have been obvious to me: I should give an explanation on The Great Go! Christmas Show! and so I am. When I say, "Hear we go!" each time I begin a new story, it is a play on the word here. I mean "Here we go!" Like one would say when embarking on a trip or an adventure, but since this is a listening "Poddyssey" as I call it, I spell and say, Hear, H-E-A-R, as in listen, like "Hear ye! Hear ye!" I love a good play on words, and more meaning than may originally meet the eye.
Hear we go! is also how I live, as highlighted by Isaiah 50 and Isaiah 30 and John 10....just a bit from Isaiah 30, "In repentance and rest is your salvation, in quietness and trust is your strength...the LORD longs to be gracious to you: therefore He will rise up to show you compassion. For the LORD is a GOD of justice. Blessed are all who wait for Him! People of Zion, who live in Jerusalem, you will weep no more. How gracious He will be when you cry for help! As soon as He hears, He will answer you! Although the LORD gives you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, your teachers will be hidden no more; with your own eyes you will see them. Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, "This is the way; walk in it."
Isaiah 50:4 "The Sovereign Lord has given me a well-instructed tongue,
to know the word that sustains the weary.
He wakens me morning by morning,
wakens my ear to listen like one being instructed.
And a little of John 10, “Very truly I tell you Pharisees, anyone who does not enter the sheep pen by the gate, but climbs in by some other way, is a thief and a robber. The one who enters by the gate is the shepherd of the sheep. The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. When he has brought out all his own, he goes on ahead of them, and his sheep follow him because they know his voice. But they will never follow a stranger; in fact, they will run away from him because they do not recognize a stranger’s voice.” Jesus used this figure of speech, but the Pharisees did not understand what he was telling them.
Therefore Jesus said again, “Very truly I tell you, I am the gate for the sheep. All who have come before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep have not listened to them. I am the gate; whoever enters through me will be saved. They will come in and go out, and find pasture. The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.
“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. The hired hand is not the shepherd and does not own the sheep. So when he sees the wolf coming, he abandons the sheep and runs away. Then the wolf attacks the flock and scatters it. The man runs away because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep.
“I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me—just as the Father knows me and I know the Father—and I lay down my life for the sheep.
That gives at least some context....your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, "This is the way; walk in it." and "the sheep listen to his voice....his sheep follow him because they know his voice...." and "He wakens me morning by morning, wakens my ear to listen like one being instructed." "Hear" we go!
If it wasn't copyrighted, and complicated to get permission, I would sing a little bit of Michael Card's song, That's What Faith Must Be, since it fits perfectly here, and has been one of my personal theme songs since I first heard it when I was 15, in 1988, the year it was released. You can easily find it on YouTube: That's What Faith Must Be, Michael Card. The lines and music are beautiful to me, and in essence, he is singing about what is means to walk by faith, not by sight. You hear the voice of the Holy Spirit, and you follow. All unseen.
So, now you now, and now you can "hear" the "Hear" in "Hear we go!" each time you hear The Great Go! Christmas Show!
