Why Would The God Of Heaven Speak To You? Because He Loves You- Believe it!

My Utmost For His Highest

 

Samuel was afraid to tell Eli the vision. —1 Samuel 3:15

 

“God never speaks to us in dramatic ways, but in ways that are easy to misunderstand. Then we say, “I wonder if that is God’s voice?” Isaiah said that the Lord spoke to him “with a strong hand,” that is, by the pressure of his circumstances (Isaiah 8:11). Without the sovereign hand of God Himself, nothing touches our lives. Do we discern His hand at work, or do we see things as mere occurrences?  Get into the habit of saying, “Speak, Lord,” and life will become a romance (1 Samuel 3:9). Every time circumstances press in on you, say, “Speak, Lord,” and make time to listen. Chastening is more than a means of discipline— it is meant to bring me to the point of saying, “Speak, Lord.” Think back to a time when God spoke to you. Do you remember what He said? Was it Luke 11:13, or was it 1 Thessalonians 5:23? As we listen, our ears become more sensitive, and like Jesus, we will hear God all the time.”  CHAMBERS

 

Do you believe that God would ever speak to you?  Why would He?  Why should He?  There are any number of reasons that we can come up with that would lessen our standing and relationship with the Father.  Make us something less than the “spiritual” Christians that we read about or see standing in front of us, sharing about how God has used them.  And we think, that could never be me.  But it is you …. (Ephesians 2: 8-13)  “For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—  not by works, so that no one can boast.  For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. Therefore, remember that formerly you who are Gentiles by birth and called “uncircumcised” by those who call themselves “the circumcision” (which is done in the body by human hands)— remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.  But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ.” 

 

The “we” in those verses includes you, my friend.  The works that we do in our flesh, on our own, cannot save us or please God, but the works we do by the power of the Spirit, God has ordained as part of His plan to restore the lost.  You are part of that plan.  What you need to do is accept that as truth, walk in it, and listen for God’s voice .. in circumstances ,  as your read the Word, as you pray, and through the encouragement of other saints who are, themselves, walking after the Spirit and not the flesh.  Sshhhh!  What was that?  Was that the Lord speaking to you by His Spirit through this devotion?  Think about it and pray about it, but more importantly, do what He says.  ELGIN

 

Charley Elgin