Over the past cou­ple days I’ve had a recur­ring con­ver­sa­tion, which has led to this post. I believe with­out a shadow of a doubt that God is always speak­ing to us—the ques­tion is are we lis­ten­ing, or are we wait­ing to hear the answer(s) we want to hear?  If we are earnestly seek­ing the way our Heav­enly Father would have us go and prayer­fully peti­tion His will; how arro­gant it is for us to think He would be silent, or that He would send a con­fus­ing response. The Bible says, “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.” — Matthew 7:7

Con­sider this: A young adult calls his/her par­ent and says, “I need some advice about…” It’s unlikely the par­ent would say, “Let me get back to you tomor­row, next week, or next month.”  I pre­sume instead that the par­ent would impart what­ever wis­dom he/she has on that mat­ter as God leads.  How much more does our Heav­enly Father want to impart His wis­dom? Satan per­pet­u­ates the lie that we can­not expect God to answer our ques­tions in “real-time”. We make a dis­heart­en­ing mis­take (in my opin­ion) when we assume God will respond with less enthu­si­asm than our earthly Fathers. While He may have us wait for “some­thing” the answer may be just that…“wait”.

Let’s say (using the exam­ple above) the young adult’s response to parental advice is, “I under­stand. So you think it’s okay to drink and drive.”  I pre­sume the child would be quickly cor­rected. The par­ent would likely respond, “No. You mis­heard, but I’ll make it clearer for you.” I believe when we “mis­hear” God, He, too, cor­rects us (if we’re listening).

What a joy and a priv­i­lege to have that kind of inti­mate rela­tion­ship with the Cre­ator of the uni­verse.  The Bible says, “Be strong and coura­geous. Do not be afraid or ter­ri­fied because of them, for the LORD your God goes with you; he will never leave you nor for­sake you.” –Deuteron­omy 31:6 

Scrip­ture that under­scores this truth for me is:

Hebrews 11:1. “Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and cer­tain of what we do not see.”

James 1:5  “If any of you lacks wis­dom, he should ask God, who gives gen­er­ously to all with­out find­ing fault, and it will be given to him.”

John 5:14–15 “This is the con­fi­dence we have in approach­ing God: that if we ask any­thing accord­ing to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him.”

Luke 11:9–13  “So I say to you: Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For every­one who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened. Which of you fathers, if your son asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead? Or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scor­pion?  If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your chil­dren, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”

God bless,

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