Heard From

"Every day, in every minute of the day, He can be spoken to and heard from."

WE HAVE TO stop fighting back under our own strength, power, and mental acumen. We hear from the Spirit but go against His direction, as if it is based on a guess He made. As He said to me once, “I AM the future.” Not that He knows it, but He is it. We don’t have to understand this, just accept it. There are things He will not reveal until we are with Him in heaven.

We want to retain control – over our lives, over our futures. He wants us to hand them to Him and not take them back. Such was the Old Covenant Law; it worked man’s actions, man trying to save himself. When what God wanted men to see was His promised salvation, which would require only our acceptance of His free gift and none of our work at all. That was the point. Yet, we fall back into this pattern again and again.

We trust man’s knowledge over God’s voice. When choosing a doctor’s treatment, when investing our money or paying certain bills, we decide what’s the best to do. But God is with us, and He is the future, and He contains all wisdom. Hearing Him is not meant to be solely on Sundays, at church events, and our daily prayer time. We are supposed to hear Him at the medical clinic, at the bank, in our children’s schools. He has promised to never leave us or forsake us and to never leave us alone. Those are two separate, wonderful things. Every day, in every minute of the day, He can be spoken to and heard from.

1 Thessalonians 5:17 in the Remedy translation says, “Keep an open conversation with God and talk with him about everything,” I love this so much. A conversation is so much freer and more casual than how we’ve decided prayer should be. Conversation is both sides speaking and hearing one another, and it’s meant to be enjoyable, not constricted. The previous verse, 1 Thessalonians 5:16, says, “Always be joyful.” That’s the attitude of the people and of God who is listening. He is joyful because “He’s got this” for you and for me. What we can’t figure out, He knows in complete detail; nothing is missing from His point-of-view. We must trust Him with it. Where ours is narrow or, as we read in 1 Corinthians 13:12, a foggy mirror, He sees it all and has it all in hand.

We’re too impatient. We must remember God is longsuffering. This word has been misunderstood. It isn’t suffering at all, but endless patience with complete peace. After all, God created the world in six days, something He could have done in seconds. He took His time. He was longsuffering with our salvation as well. Again, that motion device, created to run in a specific way for a specific result. And the end He had planned before the foundation of the world was, when it happened at last, truly victorious and spectacular. God took a mutilated body and breathed it back to life. We should know this and take heart at whatever we are facing.

It's all small potatoes to God. All our worrying and fretting doesn’t change Him one bit. It does, however, ruin the atmosphere around us. Suddenly, the problem seems huge and God not working. That’s what the devil wants us to think. From the beginning, he’s tried to alter the image of God from merciful and generous and loving to wrathful and difficult. It’s a lie. Nor is our reverence of Him meant to make Him further away and hard to handle. Instead, it is that He is so very kind, and we marvel at it. We must resist the urge to offer a sacrifice that He’s already taken care of Himself. There is only one Lamb of God, and His name is Jesus. Jesus completed the Law and opened a way to speak directly to the Father. The Holy Spirit is our conversation. Whether in our native tongue or in our God-given one, He understands us and provides all we need to hang in there successfully.

The sun always rises above the clouds. Even greater, it never sets but rotates the earth continually as God has given it to do. Though we must note this was not until Day 4. For “Let there be light,” came to pass from the beauty of God Himself. And God Himself sent Himself to be our sacrifice so that He could abide with us forever.

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“God, who examines our inner attitude and mind, understands what his Spirit desires. His Spirit prays for us who belong to God exactly as God wants him to pray. And we know that for those who love God, he works out all things that happen to them in a way that does us good. He does this for those whom he has chosen, because that was what he planned to do.” (Romans 8:27-28 UDB)

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Suzanne D. Williams, Author
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