From: Oswald Chambers
Devotionals
1 Samuel 3:10 "…Speak Lord, for Your servant
is listening!"
Just because I have listened carefully and intently to one thing from God does not mean that I listen to everything He says. But if I love my friend, I will instinctively understand what he wants. And Jesus said, "You are My friends..." (John 15:14)
The goal of my spiritual life is such close identification with Jesus Christ that I will always hear God and know that God always hears me. If I am united with Christ, I hear God all the time through the devotion of hearing. Anything I come into contact with, any situation or any person may convey God's message to me. What hinders me from hearing is my attention to other things. It is not that I don’t want to hear God, but I am not devoted in the right areas of my life. My spiritual antennae are not tuned properly!
God may say whatever He wants, but I just don’t hear Him. The attitude of a child of God should always be, "…Speak Lord, for Your servant is listening!" If I have not developed and nurtured this devotion of hearing, I can only hear God’s voice at certain times. At other times I become deaf to Him because my attention is to other things - things which I think I must do.
Just because I have listened carefully and intently to one thing from God does not mean that I listen to everything He says. But if I love my friend, I will instinctively understand what he wants. And Jesus said, "You are My friends..." (John 15:14)
The goal of my spiritual life is such close identification with Jesus Christ that I will always hear God and know that God always hears me. If I am united with Christ, I hear God all the time through the devotion of hearing. Anything I come into contact with, any situation or any person may convey God's message to me. What hinders me from hearing is my attention to other things. It is not that I don’t want to hear God, but I am not devoted in the right areas of my life. My spiritual antennae are not tuned properly!
God may say whatever He wants, but I just don’t hear Him. The attitude of a child of God should always be, "…Speak Lord, for Your servant is listening!" If I have not developed and nurtured this devotion of hearing, I can only hear God’s voice at certain times. At other times I become deaf to Him because my attention is to other things - things which I think I must do.
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