You’ll never know when the Lord has a message for you. This could be while you’re driving, watching a movie, talking a walk or half asleep in bed. The only problem about knowing this is the Lord speaking is one’s ability to discern and hear an invisible God. Like Amber Tamblyn’s role playing Joan Giradi in Joan of Arcadia, if you tell anyone that God is talking to you, others will think you’re crazy.
The Lord said to Moses in Midian, Go back to Egypt; for all the men who were seeking your life [for killing the Egyptian] are dead. 20 And Moses took his wife and his sons and set them on donkeys, and he returned to the land of Egypt; and Moses took the rod of God in his hand, Exodus 4:19-20.
After fleeing Egypt, Moses remained in Midian for an extended period of time. Besides getting married, Moses was hired by his father-in-law Jethro to oversee his growing herd. Moses spent several years living as a foreigner in a strange land until the Lord spoke to him. While this initial introduction via a flame within a bush seemed odd, Moses learned to hear and discern God’s voice.
I have still many things to say to you, but you are not able to bear them or to take them upon you or to grasp them now. 13 But when He, the Spirit of Truth (the Truth-giving Spirit) comes, He will guide you into all the Truth (the whole, full Truth). For He will not speak His own message [on His own authority]; but He will tell whatever He hears [from the Father; He will give the message that has been given to Him], and He will announce and declare to you the things that are to come [that will happen in the future], John 6:12-13.
Prior to his death, resurrection and ascension into heaven, Jesus introduced what one of his disciples calls the Spirit of Truth. In the age of the New Testament, 2000 years later, the Holy Spirit serves as a mediator between God and human beings. When the Lord speaks to you today in a variety of ways, rely on this spiritual counselor for understanding. Pray that God will give you ears to hear daily so the next time the Lord speaks, you’ll be ready to listen.
by Jay Mankus
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