(CS4U) Have You Heard From God - Part 2

 

Have You Heard From God – Part 2   So Eli told Samuel, "Go and lie down, and if he calls you, say, 'Speak, LORD, for your servant is listening.'" So Samuel went and lay down in his place. 1 Samuel 3:9 Some of us are reluctant to open ourselves to God's leadings. Why? Because we know people who claim to be doing this, but their approach scares us. These people seem to have performed a kind of intellectual lobotomy on themselves; now they expect God to choose their socks in the morning and their restaurant for dinner. They claim to experience a leading an hour, a vision a day, a miracle a week. In reaction to this, some of us run in the opposite direction. To us, the Holy Spirit's promptings seem to go against human nature and conventional thought. Accustomed to steering our own ship, we are squeamish about letting Him lead. We wish the package was a little neater; it seems too illusive and mysterious. It unnerves us. So when we sense the Spirit is leading, we resist it, analyze it, and conclude it is not logical; therefore we do not pay attention to it. What a loss! Some of us want to obey the Spirit, but we are not sure we know when He is really speaking. "Am I hearing my own desires or God's voice?" Not wanting to go off the deep end, we avoid the water altogether. All these reactions are understandable. We have all experienced them. Yet Paul writes, "Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit" (Galatians 5:25). When you fail to open yourself to God's Spirit and keep in step with Him, your Christian life becomes cerebral, boring, and worst of all - unfruitful. Do not let that happen to you!   Prayer Heavenly Father, Your will is always for us to build for Your Kingdom and to show Your Mercy and Compassion to others. That is the given. Help me, by Your Spirit, to do that with what and who you place before today. In Jesus' Name, Amen

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