I have a girlfriend who calls me and asks if I heard from another girlfriend. Why she always wants to know is beyond me but I answer her with a yes, or a no, or I tell her I received a vmail from her or I tell her we texted each other. It seems easier for me to text than it is to talk. I really prefer it. I have to tell you, in this day and age of ATMs and electronic voices on the phones, it’s hard to get a voice at all. I was soooo frustrated the other day when I called my doctor’s office and got stuck in (what felt like) a telephone maze of pressing number one, then four, then nine, etc. I was just about ready to stick a fork in my eye when the Holy Spirit took control of my flesh and allowed me to get a flashback. I instantly remembered hearing on the radio about a website that provides ways to get a human voice on the phone when we need one instead of a machine. You ready? It’s www.gethuman.com . Sometimes you just need to hear a voice to make everything alright!
How about God? I don’t know about you but I get tired of talking to my girlfriends and Charles about my problems. I am certain they get tired of me yapping, yapping, and yapping anyway! They listen and that’s nice but sometimes they offer advice that I don’t want but I know they mean well. I am learning to get on my face and talk to God until I hear from Him. I am also learning that man cannot speak to us the way God can. God has all the right answers that make sense anyway. When God tells us to go someplace or do something, it might not be the direction we necessarily want to go in or the direction we thought our God would send us in but we know that it is the direction that will benefit us and those around us. Jonah could have saved himself some heartache if he had only gone to Nineveh instead of Tarsus in the first place, right? But nooo, Mr. Jonah (like us) followed his own mind instead of the direction of God. Trust me, moving to Jacksonville, Florida was not in my thought process (or in Charles’). After we got here and went to a family reunion; we learned Charles has a bunch of cousins here, he is doing the type of work he likes on a part time basis, we have a beautiful church family, and we are both drawing closer to God together on separate paths. That’s God and I am thankful.
Sometimes you just need to hear the voice of God to make everything alright! My Pastor said on Sunday that in order for us to do what God asks us to do, we have to deny ourselves and draw closer to God and get a better understanding of God’s ways and be willing to follow God because when God asks us to do something, it is gonna seem crazy – God will ask us to bless those that curse us, and love our neighbors, and turn the other cheek, and forgive those that despitefully use us. It is not as difficult to do when we are in relationship with God.
“He who belongs to God hears what God says. The reason you do not hear is that you do not belong to God." (John 8:47). Jesus replied, “I have already told you, and you don’t believe me. The proof is the work I do in my Father’s name. But you don’t believe me because you are not my sheep. My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one can snatch them away from me,” “John 10:24-28).
So many great and wonderful things have already happened to us in our lives, imagine what is in store for us as we continue to learn, stretch and grow closer and closer to God? Mannnn!!! And it’s all good because it is all God! When really good things happen to me when I feel I do not deserve it, I have been saying “its favor and favor ain’t fair”. It made sense to me but a lady posted a spin on that slogan on Facebook the other day. She wrote, “To say favor isn't fair is to say that God is not a just God. Quit jumping on every cliché you hear. Promotion begins with God and ends there too. Our God is a fair God. I am ALWAYS favored as all things work for my good. The unbeliever is subject to God's grace only. So that's sounds pretty fair to me. ” Hmmmm, something else to think about and discuss with other Believers!
By: Sharon Griffin-Rogers
Florida, USA
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