Do you hear God’s voice? God is always speaking, are you listening? Deuteronomy chapter 5, Moses called the people together and reminded them how the Lord spoke to them on the mountain. Deuteronomy 5:4 (NKJV) “The Lord talked with you face to face on the mountain from the midst of the fire.” Moses stood as an intermediary between the people and the Lord, God spoke and Moses passed the message on to the people.
The people of Israel when they heard God speaking on the mountain they were afraid of His voice. They said in Deuteronomy 5:27 (NKJV) “You go near and hear all that the Lord our God may say, and tell us all that the Lord our God says to you, and we will hear and do it.’”
The people were content to have Moses listening to God for them. Look at Exodus 20:19 (NKJV) “Then they said to Moses, “You speak with us, and we will hear; but let not God speak with us, lest we die.”
If we are not careful we can be just like the people of Israel, failing to listen to God personally. God speaks but we pay no attention to his voice not because of willful disobedience, but because we do not truly love and respect him. We show how little love we truly have for God by preferring to listen to his servants rather then to Him. Today we have available to us as Christians so much literature. There are so many Bibles and study helps and devotional books, Bible software with libraries full of information, yet we Christians are ignorant of the Word. We know what we believe but can we back it up with scripture. This happens when we listen to the servants instead of the Master.
Listen to the Master; I know if you listen he will speak to you right now. Make it your discipline every day to go to God’s Word with joy and ask him to speak to you as you read it. John 10:27 “My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.”
Pastor Larry
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