Fearlessly Courageous
Desk of Dennis Piller
10 22 2025
How Do You Learn and Accept or Retain the Things of God?
“The heart of the discerning acquires knowledge, for the ears of the wise seek it out.” Proverbs 18:15
Did you know, Indifference closes the mind as much as it does the heart.
When we stop caring, we stop listening. When we stop thinking and discerning, what is God’s truth in light of my life? My thinking and my doing? We quit seeking deeper understanding of God’s Word or fresh revelation through experience.
An indifferent heart says, “I’ve heard it all before.”
But a humble, hungry heart says, “Lord, teach me again.” That requires a heart after God.
What is your fruit in that arena?
When we lose our spiritual curiosity, we miss the small lessons hidden in everyday life
and the whispers of the Holy Spirit in ordinary moments.
Indifference makes faith stale because it stops us from growing.
America has become addicted to filling the quiet in our lives. Our face, our mind and thoughts, and thus our soul, are being fed things that are surely not eternal…surely not truth that will draw us nearer and deeper into a relationship with Jesus.
Because we cannot handle the solitude and silence necessary to reflect on what God has given us.
Learning requires a bit of awe and silence.
Indifference kills awe.
Although I rarely hear the word spoken or even see it in print, it holds a deep and important meaning, and I think to many… a revelation, because indifference changes the way we see
and thus it clouds our vision.
We stop seeing the fingerprints of God in the world around us. Why?
Our world is way too noisy with distractions of our choosing.
We stop seeing beauty in the broken or hope in the hurting. It is also the reason we pray less.
Our spiritual sight dims … not because the light is gone, but because we’ve closed our eyes to it. We have filled it with the light and glitz of man.
Matthew 6:22 says; “The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy, your whole body will be full of light.” Where is the light you’re seeking?
Shockingly, after conducting a word study on this word,
I am stunned by the profound effects it has on our lives.
But what does it mean when I say, our eyes grow indifferent? When we stop seeing through the lenses of compassion, humility, and faith … life itself begins to feel dimmer. It doesn’t hit all at once. It’s not like taking a blood test that reveals anemia, and the Doctor informs us. The effects are subtle, creeping in over time, much like hearing loss.
Sometimes, by God’s grace, someone says something — a word of truth, a gentle correction — and we realize we’ve become lax in one area of our heart or vision. Or we notice something we should have acted on but didn’t. Even then, we rarely label it as indifference. It’s rarely intentional. But it happens to all of us!
Yet without a Godly vision — without seeing life through the eyes of Christ — it’s nearly impossible to sustain a truly meaningful earthly vision. Our perception of people, opportunities, and purpose will inevitably fade.
We start seeing people as categories instead of children of God.
We often view circumstances as obstacles rather than opportunities for growth and grace.
Indifference turns vision into blindness — not physical, but spiritual.
And blindness keeps us from recognizing God’s hand when it’s right in front of us.
So, where’s the Good News? Where does one find these answers?
Where’s the blood test to uncover indifference?
The opposite of indifference is not hyperactivity — it’s tenderness.
When we ask God to soften our hearts, He restores our ability to love deeply, learn humbly, and see clearly.
Ezekiel 36:26 promises, “I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.”
God has done that for you and me. Yet it’s far too easy to drift — to let busyness, comfort, or distractions harden our hearts again.
That’s what revival truly looks like: the thawing of the heart. Where indifference once dulled our senses, love, wisdom, and vision are awakened. Life becomes vibrant again, and we begin to see and respond with the tenderness God originally placed within us.
But how do we stay there? How do we keep our hearts soft and alive?
We need accountability — people who notice when our hearts start to cool. We need a community that helps us remain sensitive, a circle that challenges us gently, yet firmly. We need someone to pull us out of our shells of age, confinement, or comfort and push us onto the ledge of loving, serving, and seeing.
It’s in that shared journey … leaning on one another, challenging one another, encouraging one another … that revival doesn’t just happen once, but becomes a lifelong awakening of the heart.
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