Does God
still speak to us today? How do we know we have heard from Him? With all of all
our human limitations, how can we have any idea of what and when God is really
speaking to us? It has been suggested:
“Hearing God?
A daring idea, some would say, presumptuous and even dangerous. But what if
we are made for it? What if the human system simply will not function
properly without it? There are good
reasons to think it will not. The fine texture as well as the grand movements
of life shows the need. Is it not, in fact, more presumptuous and dangerous to
undertake human existence without hearing God?”[1]
God has chosen to have a personal
relationship with us. He has supernaturally revealed who He is right in the
midst of people’s daily life. This has been part of His historical contact with
us; and is seen as early as the book of Genesis right through to the book of Revelation.
This is reality even today. An essential part of our faith is that God
communicates with us and we can communicate with Him. He is not in some remote
corner of the created order, but He is
intimately close.
In Gen 2:16;
3:8-9 we read,
16
“And the LORD God commanded Adam, saying…” 8 “When the cool evening breezes
were blowing, Adam and his wife heard the Lord God walking about in the garden.
So they hid from the Lord God among the trees. 9 Then the Lord God
called to Adam, ‘Where are you?’”
So, from the
beginning, God has been speaking with humanity. You know, this has not stopped.
As the writer to the Hebrews states,
1 “Long
ago God spoke many times and in many ways to our ancestors through the
prophets. 2 And now in these final days, He has spoken to us through
His Son. God promised everything to the Son as an inheritance, and through the
Son He created the universe” (Heb 1:1-2 NLT).
What do we do about what we have read
today? The choice is ours, as He is speaking, but are we listening or even
willing to listen? When was the last time you heard Him speak? Well today is
the day to hear Him. Are you willing?
Pause in His presence for a
moment and think this over…
[1] Willard,
Dallas. Hearing God: Developing a
Conversational Relationship with God. (Downer Grove, IL: IVP Books, 1993),
9.
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