How does God communicate with you ? I've been noticing that God answers the questions in my mind. Do you know what I mean ? The worries and thoughts and wonderings that repeat over and over again in my mind are often the questions that God also answers over and over until I recognize that he's talking to me. I start to see the same thought or idea or scripture everywhere and suddenly I know that it's God trying to get my attention. It makes me stop and ask myself, "Okay, what question have I been asking ?"
Often I'm not very quick to pick up on it. But God is patient, he repeats the answer over and over until I "get it". Sometimes I realize he's giving me an answer but I haven't realized that I'm even asking a question. That may be hard to believe but not all my dialogues with Him start out with "God, can I ask you a question?", although, I admit it, some of them do. Sometimes he just listens in to my thought process because I have invited him to do that. I want God to be part of my every day.
Once I asked him about a ministry that I was involved with and suddenly everyone was telling me "Ichabod, Ichabod". It was the strangest thing but I finally figured out that God was saying that his glory had departed from it and I should too. And then when I was feeling bad about the direction my life had taken and was wondering if he could still use me at all, he had someone send me an email containing the poem, The Touch Of The Master's Hand. That told me that though I may not feel worth much on my own, with just one touch of his hand we could make beautiful music together. Another time I was dwelling on my lack of accomplishment and my advancing years and he gave me a song called "I have a Hope" with lyrics that go like this:
I have a hope, I have a future, I have a destiny that is yet awaiting me, my life's not over, a new beginning's just begun, I have a hope. I have this hope.
It's sung by Tommy Walker, you might like it. YouTube has a video of him singing it with the words printed across the screen. That song speaks to me, every single word. I think of it now as my personal theme song.
And then when I had trouble grasping even this assurance that God was trying to give me, he underlined it by placing Jeremiah 29:11 everywhere I looked so I would not fail to get the message.
Jer 29:11 For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
God always seems to know what we need to hear, doesn't he ?
Yesterday, I said to God ... I feel lonely. Today he answered me all day long through different people, places and things. Immanuel, he said ... God with us. God with ME.
I can SO appreciate this God that hears my heart.
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