Psalm 32:8- I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with Mine eye upon you. Be not like the horse or the mule, which lack understanding, which must have their mouths held firm with bit and bridle, or else they will not come with you.
Don't be like an animal or beast of burden that refuses to move unless forced to. A horse is controlled by its owner with the use of a metal mouthpiece and headgear. God says He will counsel, urge, encourage and direct us with His eyes upon us. He will educate, enlighten, edify and guide us in the way that we should go. He expects us to respond promptly to Him of our own accord and not because we are forced to. God does not force us to do anything. His is a gentle prodding, a gentle leading from within. Sadly, many of us do not respond until we are knocked upside the head or faced with calamity and then we say, "Oh, maybe God's trying to tell me something."
Why do we prefer chaos over peace?
We call ourselves children of God. Why then do we find it so hard to hear and respond to His voice? Imagine calling out to your child and never getting a response or as a parent watching your child stumble and fall continuously because they refuse to hear you, to heed your counsel, your advice, and benefit from your experiences? Imagine then how God feels....
Perhaps the sound of God's voice is foreign to us because we've never spent time with Him to be familiar with it. Perhaps God assumed we would recognize His voice because as His children we would want to intimately know Him as He knows us.
It probably sounds odd to even fathom that God wants to reveal Himself to us. For many of us based on our religious upbringing and conditioning, we see Him as a dictator not at all interested in us or our well-being. But, He's not. God is love.
The question is when will you open your ears to hear and having heard, obey?
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
I don't know about you, but I prefer the being knocked over the head...just kidding!
ReplyDeleteI think people don't understand how to hear from God. They think it's suppose to be a voice inside their heads or that deep baritone voice we heard in the Ten Commandments movie when God spoke to Moses.
And more times then not...we feel we know best and do our own thing. That is until we are in difficult situations with little to no way out, when we then ask God for a sign, a message a messenger to save us.
Like you said when will we open our ears? And then, when will we be still enough to actually hear from God?
Just my opinion ;)
This comment has been removed by the author.
ReplyDeleteSo true. Isn't God's voice described as "still and small"? As if it's always been there - like a gentle nudging. For me, it has been as "simple" as "Don't turn that corner" or "Smile at the next person who crosses your path. I think we expect His voice to always been grand as stated previously. Yet isn't it amazing that such a great God can be both magnificent and subtle? Makes me wonder over Him even more.
ReplyDelete