‘Sometimes God puts us
through the experience and discipline of darkness to teach us to hear and obey
Him. Song birds are taught to sing in the dark, and God puts us into “the
shadow of His hand” until we learn to hear Him (Isaiah 49:2).
[…] After every time of darkness, we
should experience a mixture of delight and humiliation. If there is only
delight, I question whether we have really heard God at all. We should
experience delight for having heard God speak, but mostly humiliation for
having taken so long to hear Him! Then we will exclaim, “How slow I have been
to listen and understand what God has been telling me!” And yet God has been
saying it for days and even weeks. But once you hear Him, He gives you the gift
of humiliation, which brings a softness of heart— a gift that will always cause
you to listen to God now.’ CHAMBERS
How have your conversations with God been? Communication with God is not just us praying to Him. But listening. We can be so hard of hearing … stubborn
even. Our hearing becomes dull because
we are so busy doing whatever it is that we are doing .. Whether for God or for
ourselves.
Deuteronomy
26:17 “Today you
have proclaimed the LORD to be your God, and that you will walk in His ways and
keep His statutes, His commandments, and His judgments, and that you will obey
His voice.”
Like the Jews following God, when we said yes to
Jesus as Lord, we agreed to listen to Him.
John
10:27 “My sheep
hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.”
We need to be more sensitive to the voice of our
Lord. We can only do that by being
spiritually aware. We can only do that
by being intentional about reading the Word, praying .. doing the
fundamentals. When a football team is
not playing well … often times the coach will take them back to the
fundamentals of the game … If you can’t do those things, you can’t perform
well. If you can’t hear His voice, you
need to go back to the fundamentals.
Bondye Beni Ou (God Bless You)
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