The Dilemma Of Obedience

God never speaks to us in startling ways, but in ways that are easy to misunderstand, and we say, “I wonder if that is God’s voice?” Isaiah said that the Lord spake to him “with a strong hand,” that is, by the pressure of circumstances. Nothing touches our lives but it is God Himself speaking. Do we discern His hand or only mere occurrence?

As Becky and I have bee contemplating this move back to Texas…this move back into Pastoral Leadership, we have asked ourselves many times about this.  “is this particular scripture I’m reading on this particular day with this particular group of circumstances going on in our lives, God’s way of speaking?”  or is this just coincidence?

I asked Becky when reading our daily reading about Abraham ^{Gen. 31:3} Then the LORD said to him, “Go back to the land of your fathers and to your family, and I will be with you.”^(A)

I asked Becky at a time when it particularly strong.  “could it be that simple?”  The answer is YES! God speaks through His word simply; however the obedience is not so simple. But Belief is forward progress.  We believe as we act upon what God has told us or what we think God has told us and as we act that which God has said begins to unfold.