Sunday’s message on how to hear God speaking to us poses one of the great challenges of the Christian experience. The underlying factor is this “faith” thing. God persistently refuses to reveal Himself to us overtly. He doesn’t speak from clouds or thunder or whirlwinds, as He did in the Old Testament. He has spoken to us through Jesus, as the writer of Hebrews starts off His letter, and now, with the indwelling Holy Spirit, the presence of Christ within, He speaks to us through thoughts and impressions.
Sunday we used Jesus’ parable of the sower in Luke 8 to suggest that in this story, the seed that fell on the pathway where the ground has been pressed down could be compared to a closed mind. We don’t hear God speak, often because we are not open to the possibility that He might speak to us. Jesus’ story says that the sower’s seed that fell on this ground could not take root because the soil was compacted, and birds came along and carried the seeds away. In other words, being closed minded to the voice of God in our lives is for the birds!!
Now it is your turn. Do you ever hear God speak? Do you ever recall a time when you sensed God was speaking, and then later found out that He had indeed? Tell me what you think. I will still be one this subject next Sunday and would like to include some of your comments in that message. Thanks for both listening and responding.
