Sick of Hearing About It

By Pastor Justin Cooper

You ever sit across a kitchen table from somebody who keeps telling you about the way it used to be?

I have. I've sat with older preachers who would close their eyes and tell me about all-night prayer meetings. Preachers calling out lost folks by description they'd never met. People walking the aisle before the song ever ended. They'd lean back and say, "Boy, God used to move."

And listen — every time, I'd sit there thinking the same thing. I don't just want to hear about it.

David felt that. Look at Psalm 132 verse 6 with me. "Lo, we heard of it at Ephratah." Ephratah is Bethlehem — that's where David grew up. As a boy, he heard the stories. How the ark of God went into the Jordan and the water stood up on a heap. How the ark led the people around Jericho until those walls came down. How God met with His people in a way you couldn't fake and you couldn't forget.

David grew up on those stories. And one day David got tired of hearing them.

"There is more to God than many people have ever even realized." — Pastor Justin Cooper

That sentence is either an indictment or an invitation. Maybe both.

Y'all worried about stuff you can't fix? Stuff your prayers haven't moved? Stuff that doesn't budge on Monday no matter how loud you sang on Sunday?

Listen, brother. Listen, sister. The God who split the Jordan still splits things. The God who tore down Jericho still tears things down. The God who showed up in the burning bush still shows up.

Hearing about Him is not the same as having Him.

Stories will not satisfy a hungry soul.

You and I were not built for second-hand faith.

So this morning, do something a little uncomfortable. Tell the Lord, plain as day: I don't want to just hear about it. I want to know You. Open your Bible to Psalm 132 and read those first nine verses out loud. Slow down on verse 5. Make David's vow yours — that you will not settle for routine religion until God Himself is real to you again. Then walk into your day looking for Him.