READ: I Samuel 3: 10-11
God is always trying to speak to you and me. The question is, are we listening? To discern God’s voice, we have to cultivate the habit of listening to God. Listening to God isn’t easy. The truth is Satan doesn’t want you to listen to God. He is going to do everything he can to keep you from hearing God. His primary tools are busyness, hurry, and noise. He wants to keep you distracted. He wants you to be listening to TV, to have ears filled with the music of culture blaring from your Ipod, to always have your radio on, to never turn your cell phone off, because he wants the culture to influence you more than God. He knows the voice of culture will mess you up and the voice of God will lift you up. Satan is going to do whatever he can do to keep you distracted from God. There is a great verse in the Bible that simply says, “Be still and know that I am God.” To hear the voice of God you have to cultivate stillness and silence into your life. I love the concept of just having a daily quiet time with God. I wonder what would happen today if you just turned off your cell phone, your computer, your Ipod, your TV, for just 10 minutes and said, “Speak Lord, your servant is listening.” The more you cultivate the habit of listening, the more you will be able to hear the voice of God.
God is always trying to speak to you and me. The question is, are we listening? To discern God’s voice, we have to cultivate the habit of listening to God. Listening to God isn’t easy. The truth is Satan doesn’t want you to listen to God. He is going to do everything he can to keep you from hearing God. His primary tools are busyness, hurry, and noise. He wants to keep you distracted. He wants you to be listening to TV, to have ears filled with the music of culture blaring from your Ipod, to always have your radio on, to never turn your cell phone off, because he wants the culture to influence you more than God. He knows the voice of culture will mess you up and the voice of God will lift you up. Satan is going to do whatever he can do to keep you distracted from God. There is a great verse in the Bible that simply says, “Be still and know that I am God.” To hear the voice of God you have to cultivate stillness and silence into your life. I love the concept of just having a daily quiet time with God. I wonder what would happen today if you just turned off your cell phone, your computer, your Ipod, your TV, for just 10 minutes and said, “Speak Lord, your servant is listening.” The more you cultivate the habit of listening, the more you will be able to hear the voice of God.
– Dr. Tim Thompson