Lectio Divina (3): Awakens My ear to listen

Friday: The blizzard of 2013.  Maybe because I was doing the Building Self Esteem group, I was thinking about the other group I help to facilitate, Spirituality and Recovery.  I know I have been pondering next week's topic, which is commitment.  I didn't get a chance to nail down the Scripture, but what I thought about was Jesus's resoluteness in moving toward the cross. 

When the days were approaching for His ^[ad]ascension, He ^[ae]was determined to go to Jerusalem.  Luke 9:51
 

 http://www.spurgeongems.org/vols46-48/chs2738.pdf

I won't have time to include all of Charles Spurgeon's points here, but this is a really pertinent sermon about this idea of commitment to His mission.  He takes Isaiah 50:7 as his (Spurgeon's) starting point(but I am including the context from verse 5):

He awakens My ear to listen as a disciple.
⁵ The Lord God has opened My ear;
And I was not disobedient
Nor did I turn back.
⁶ I gave My back to those who strike Me,
And My cheeks to those who pluck out the beard;
I did not cover My face from humiliation and spitting.
⁷ For the Lord God helps Me,
Therefore, I am not disgraced;
Therefore, I have set My face like flint
 

 And now, I need to wrap this entry and go to the church's annual meeting.  Dear Triune God, please help my attitude there.  Things are changing, indeed.  Help me to be part of the change.  In the name of Jesus and the power and counsel of the Holy Spirit~~Amen!