A devotional thought from the prophet Zechariah
Should you not hear the words which the LORD hath cried by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and the cities thereof round about her, when men inhabited the south and the plain?
Zechariah 7:7
We who believe the Bible understand what God was saying. Speaking to His ancient people, who had fallen away from His plans for them, God says you should have listened to what I spoke through the prophets who came to you in the past. We recognize that God has spoken to us in the words that He inspired through the many writers of Scripture. We should hear what those writers have spoken to us in the word - hear meaning actually recognize the word which has been revealed in the Bible and live by it!