Opus 2024-209: The Divine Voice

I watched the president’s acceptance speech at the RNC, and I’ve been picking up some of the other speeches here and there.  One of the things that keeps coming through is that God seems to be communicating again.  To some of us this does not come as a surprise, but the people who have never listened weren’t aware that God communicated with people.

The Bible is full of references to God communicating and the different ways in which He does it.  There seemed to be the period where He would speak to people one on one.  We have God telling Noah to build an ark.  We have Him dictating the law to Moses.  He had been walking with Enoch.  God got involved.

Then we have a period where it seems that God would usually speak through prophets.  When David prayed that God would heal his son, God did not answer through choice scripture or through a direct voice from heaven.  He sent the prophet Nathan.  When the king wanted to know something he would call for a prophet and the prophet would speak.

Then we come to the time where Jesus is on the Earth, and it was a real physical presence.  One of the beliefs of Christians is the God Jesus was not only fully God, but He was fully man.  He spoke.  He interacted.  He answered questions.  Simple and direct.

We are now in the period where the Holy Spirit has been sent and made available to all believers.  This changes the equation again.  Once again, we are at the point where every person can meet personally with the living God.  The living God will, and does, communicate.  Often He does this through us reading the Bible and coming across a verse that speaks to the current need in our lives.  Sometimes it’s a result of study of that same Bible.  Sometimes it is the Holy Spirit bringing things to our mind when we aren’t even aware that we were wondering about it.  However, you want to look at it, God communicates with us one-on-one again.

Are you listening.  In Sunday School a lady pointed out that the root for “ignorant” is “ignore.”  God can deal with people who are ignorant because they have never heard.  There is little hope for those who choose to ignore.

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