Have you ever stopped and wondered is it possible to be so in tune with what the Lord is doing that you don't lift a thumb without hearing from Him first? I've not lived that way and maybe you haven't either. This I know, He is speaking, the question is are you listening. That's the challenge we face as a people and as a church. If we want to go into the years ahead of us blind, than it doesn't matter what we hear. Just think of this, what if and I mean what if, we heard Him first. What if, all that we did was a response to His voice.
I believe that many read the scriptures everyday without a clear understanding as to what they're saying. Anyone with some intelligence can read the Bible and come up with some kind of an interpretation. Is that what He's asking us to come up with, some kind of interpretation? Should we not be challenged to stop and listen, to wait on the Holy Spirit to speak to us through His Word.
If you're like me than you're tired, tired of walking without knowing is this the direction I should be going? I understand faith to be the evidence of what we don't see, which is actual the proof that what we don't see is as real as real can be. There are times that we as people of faith use faith as a liberty to be ignorant. I love believing in what is unseen, because I know in my knower that what is unseen is more real that what I actually see. What we need to see is what He sees. I want to stand along the prophet Elisha and say, "What should we do, we're surrounded by the enemy?" Than to have Elisha pray, "Father open his eyes to see that those that are with us are greater than those that are with them." With my eyes still looking at the enemy my vision begins to refocus on the horizen, there before me the army of the Lord surrounding the enemy.
May we truly beleive that God is for us!
This week in our church is a week of Hearing, Waiting and Listening. How many of us will take the time to put down the remote and listen to His still small voice, or the loud thundering boom that declares this is the way walk in it.
I for one, am listening. Sure there are a lot of needs filling the airways. Good things to pray for, to ask for and I'm not saying their isn't a time to do that. Today, I wait! Today, I put aside what I want and I listen and I listen and I allow the Spirit of Almighty God, Bigger than Life no rather the Creator of Life to speak, to speak to me.
Lord we are your children and we are listening.
Warren
