I came across this article on
hearing from God.
It tells the story of an employee getting instructions from his boss on an open channel..I thought it illustrated nicely the way we learn to recognise God's voice:
1) Compare with 'manual'
2) Get to know his voice (working on assumption that boss will not demand anything too risky until you do)
3) Over time, begin to understand the overall focus
The author of the article also makes some useful points about obedience..
"Often we ask God to speak to us, only to hear back, "if you are so interested in what I think, then why didn't you do the last thing I told you?" Obedience is the response that keeps the dialog going. If we refuse to do what God tells us in the little things, we risk deafening our spiritual ear. If we refuse to do what God speaks in the big things, we risk his active rebuke."
Obedience seems to be a common theme at the moment...
see Soren Kierkegaard on GOD’S WORD, THE LOVE LETTER on Seymour's blog, as well as Dietrich Bonhoeffer on DOING AND OBEYING
Tuesday, June 07, 2005
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Indeedy ...
But the scary thing is that sometimes God will just keep talking and talking to us even when we are not responding in obedience - as he did through most of the OT prophets to Israel. It breaks the dialogue in terms of a two-way thing but God never turns off the intercom.
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