Listening to the Holy Spirit:
As you hear My voice, all things change, but you must listen. The roar of the world is a great siren bringing emergency where there is none, calling like one in desperation, but without true need. Habit forms of running back-and-forth from call to call, without limit until the time-of-day exhausts. In this place of hurry and show, many lose their years of life, hour by minute. In this, also My voice, and those also whom I send. Eyes and ears fixed on the small and loud call of the empty. He who dances for coin of he who only watches, losing more than the coin. Lift your head from the pit that draws only the spectator, to He who speaks life, who calls the watcher to enter in. Join again with those others to whom I call, to those who still hear My voice.
Rom 15:4 (ESV) – For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
Jer 29:12 (ESV) – Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you.
Psalm 199:105 (ESV) – Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
Isaiah 65:24 (ESV) – Before they call I will answer; while they are yet speaking I will hear.
Taking It to Work:
How many notifications do you get a day? Instagram, Facebook, Gmail, Signal, Snapchat, Messenger? The list goes on and on, and is growing. Never before in the history of mankind, have we had the ability to communicate at this speed and at this level. It’s incredible when you stop and think about it.
In a blink of an eye our entire contact list, around the world, can know what we’re thinking, fifteen seconds after we think it. It’s crazy. Pretty soon we’ll be able to think a thought, think of the person, blink our eyes, and Apple will send them the message! They’re probably working on that right now.
What’s the downside to all this? For most of us, God is not a big part of our daily communications. Even if we have good intentions of spending time in prayer, due to the onslaught of other messages, including our work, our family, targeted advertising and entertainment, stuff we all feel is important to one degree or another, our time with God is sacrificed on the altar of a hyper-communicative life.
I find it amusing that God was the first to utilize a mass text to His people, through His Word, and has already fully developed His mental instant messaging service, way before Apple – through prayer. And it’s already available 24/7!
As you dive into work today, and the all-consuming barrage of other messages, remember that the Creator of the Universe wants to speak with you, and awaits your communication with Him. In my experience, if He doesn’t give you back an instant message, He’ll generally text you back (through His Word). Consider this your notification, as His Word works in you, today.
