Who are you listening to?

I’m reading John at the moment and a light bulb went off after reading John 3:8 “The wind blows where it wishes and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.” We don’t know where the Holy Spirit comes from, He’s just always been there and He goes wherever He wants. We can hear the Holy Spirit and like the wind, can see the effects of the Holy Spirit, but we have no idea where He’s going to take to us, unless we are actually listening. Our ears need to be tuned in at all times for us to really live a ‘born again’ life. If you think about new born babies, they have to learn absolutely everything – it’s all new to them and it’s all foreign. Like when we become born of the Spirit, we have to learn everything of the Spirit. It’s totally foreign to the world and at the start doesn’t seem right, normal or natural to us at all (because it’s not – it’s spiritual), but the Holy Spirit’s aim is for it to be normal, just like Jesus was in this world. How important is it for us then to be listening to the Holy Spirit? No wonder this gets repeated so many times in Revelation 2 and 3 “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.” He’s not talking to unbelievers here, He’s talking to those of us who are born again, born of the Spirit (we are the church). We are living in the last days and if we don’t get into the habit of listening to the Spirit, we could be listening to anything.