I’ve been out of town for a few days and I can’t wait to get home. I used to really enjoy business trips. I didn’t enjoy this one. My bride had surgery a few weeks ago and I worry that she’s taken care of. That she will do too much, and I want to be there to help take care of and her. I’m on an airplane that gets into Bend 1 minute before midnight. It’s about 98% full. I imagine like myself that the rest of the people want to get to Bend as much as I do. Otherwise they would wait for the next day and travel at a decent hour. I will most likely get to be after 1:00 am, but my wife is worth the effort. Before you start thinking to much of you let me remind you I’m still a guy and I think, say and do stupid things everyday. And afterwards wish that I had stopped and thought and that I had done better.
As I was sitting on the plane I was reminded of a song that we sing in church sometimes. It refers to the book of Psalms which mostly of was written by King David of the David and Goliath fame. He wrote “as a deer is panting for the water so my soul is panting for you “meaning God.
Just as I was longing to get home and see my bride, God does the same thing for us. He is just waiting for us to come and spend time with him. To pray and talk to him, read the bible and wait for the Holy Spirit to jump a verse or passage off the page to get our attention to hear what God has to say to us. You might ask how I know that what I’m hearing or feeling is God. I’ve wrestled with the same question. A man name Bob Wolf was teaching a class that I was in one time and he said something very profound and Holy Spirit inspired. He said: when God speaks to you it is to build you up and to be a better person, when the devil talks to you he talks to destroy you. I’ve used that as a reference when I wonder if I heard the voice of God or not. Let me give you an example. I’ve been convicted lately that I need to spend more time in prayer than I have been. So I refer back to what Bob said and check what I’m feeling. After the test I have come to the conclusion that God is calling me to pray more because he wants to spend time with me, and teach me things and learn from him. When you learn from someone it’s usually from the quantity of time spent with them, not quality time. Anyway back to the test if it had not been God speaking the talk would have gone something like this “you haven’t spent time praying today, you’ll never make it as a Christian quit trying you won’t live up” If I listened to that type of talk I would never do anything. I would say to myself why try. Use this litmus test next time you have a thought and wonder is God really speaking to me? Remember the deer panting for the water. God is waiting for us
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