Hearing God
“God spoke to me” are words that create unease in the most dedicated of Christians. “I sense that God is speaking to my heart” are also words that can give sincere faithful people a feeling of being second class believers if in all honesty they cannot say they have had such an experience. Others have had encounters that are unexplainable other than to turn to Moses’s encounter at the burning bush and Abraham’s visitation at Mount Moriah but have kept them private for fear of ridicule. Lily Tomlin asks “Why is it that when we …show more content…
At that moment sunlight broke through a split in the clouds and thin brilliant rays fanned out pointing in every direction. It was then that a voice spoke deep inside me in a way I cannot describe on paper. I heard that voice with what I would call the ears of the heart. The voice was gentle, loving and strong. “You loved this girl but I loved her even before she was born and I loved her more in this life then you could ever love her. They have other children and the children have each other. I gave my only son so that they could have a future. I understand what it is to lose a child. I am with you in this.” No human imagining could have created the comfort and peace that accompanied those words. The next day I was speaking with a young man in the community who had seen the same formation of cloud and sun and had experienced a similar conversation. He had been this girl’s closest friend and confidant at school and found me out to hesitantly share his …show more content…
However, one thing that has always remained constant for me was “the place within” where the voice was heard and the witness of my spirit that followed. The words were not always easy to receive but time always revealed that God was always working thing out to His greatest good and the strengthening of my faith and trust in Him. Dallas Willard in his book “Hearing God” makes a very humbling and challenging statement about authority in a church age where there is much discussion about who has the authority to say or do this or that. “Authority in spiritual leadership derives from a life in the spirit from the minister’s personal encounter and ongoing relationship with God.” (pg. 25) The older I get the more I hunger to hear God in the many ways He chooses to speak. I am also wise enough to realize I am but a beginner in the mystery of “Hearing
“God spoke to me” are words that create unease in the most dedicated of Christians. “I sense that God is speaking to my heart” are also words that can give sincere faithful people a feeling of being second class believers if in all honesty they cannot say they have had such an experience. Others have had encounters that are unexplainable other than to turn to Moses’s encounter at the burning bush and Abraham’s visitation at Mount Moriah but have kept them private for fear of ridicule. Lily Tomlin asks “Why is it that when we …show more content…
At that moment sunlight broke through a split in the clouds and thin brilliant rays fanned out pointing in every direction. It was then that a voice spoke deep inside me in a way I cannot describe on paper. I heard that voice with what I would call the ears of the heart. The voice was gentle, loving and strong. “You loved this girl but I loved her even before she was born and I loved her more in this life then you could ever love her. They have other children and the children have each other. I gave my only son so that they could have a future. I understand what it is to lose a child. I am with you in this.” No human imagining could have created the comfort and peace that accompanied those words. The next day I was speaking with a young man in the community who had seen the same formation of cloud and sun and had experienced a similar conversation. He had been this girl’s closest friend and confidant at school and found me out to hesitantly share his …show more content…
However, one thing that has always remained constant for me was “the place within” where the voice was heard and the witness of my spirit that followed. The words were not always easy to receive but time always revealed that God was always working thing out to His greatest good and the strengthening of my faith and trust in Him. Dallas Willard in his book “Hearing God” makes a very humbling and challenging statement about authority in a church age where there is much discussion about who has the authority to say or do this or that. “Authority in spiritual leadership derives from a life in the spirit from the minister’s personal encounter and ongoing relationship with God.” (pg. 25) The older I get the more I hunger to hear God in the many ways He chooses to speak. I am also wise enough to realize I am but a beginner in the mystery of “Hearing