Hearing God's Voice

A few months ago, Hannah was trying to get Ty to play something in her room. After asking him multiple times, he finally said, "Hannah, it's like I'm Jonah and your room is Ninevah. I ain't going." God called Jonah to go to Ninevah and he simply told God no.

Oh, how many times have I told God no? How many opportunities have I missed simply because I didn't listen to God or heard Him and turned and ran the other way?

To hear the voice of God, we must have a relationship with Him. We have to be in His word studying the truths that He has so generously given to us. We all spend our time in different ways--for young mothers, we spend our time caring for our families. Others spend time at work, with grand kids, with hobbies. Do we ever take time to stop and listen for the voice of God? Do we let Him tell us how He wants us to spend our time? Ephesians 2:10 says "for we are God's handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do." That should be so exciting to us! God in heaven has something going on here on earth that He needs us to do. Yet, I don't take the time to listen for His voice.

Why don't we listen for God's voice, for His instruction? Because we're scared. Once we decide to ask God to use us, we better be ready to be used! And it won't always be easy and it might not be something we ever thought we'd do. God doesn't want us to stay in our comfort zone. He wants us to be willing to move into His. To find our comfort in Him alone. When we give our whole selves to God to be used as He planned, we better believe something amazing is going to happen that will glorify our God!! As His creation, He longs to embrace us and desires for all of us to choose the narrow road and be with Him for eternity. He has given us the choice to follow Him along the narrow road or leave His embrace and walk the broad road to destruction (Matthew 7:13-14). We must get to the point in our walk with God that we can say "God, You are not just the most important thing in my life, You are my life."

Let your life be an act of worship to Him. Let His light shine on you so that you are different, so that you stand out from the world. Listen as God calls you to do amazing things for HIM!