What if every Christian suddenly became deaf without reasoning and without warning.
No way of communicating with others.
How would we survive spiritually?
In our time, we have become so dependent on other people's opinions on what God is speaking to us and what they think about a certain situation we are facing. As humans, we find it comforting to hear these thoughts of others, but how come it's so hard for us to be content with the thoughts of God alone? How come the words of the Great Comforter cannot comfort us? It's because we're not letting him. We find it easy to sit and have a conversation with someone in the flesh because we have no doubt that they are there and speaking. Why can't we do the same with God? Is the only reason because we can't physically see him? I know in my own life I struggle with this. I can hear God's voice but for some reason I like to hear what other people say about it and i want to know if they agree. Why do I need to know if they agree or not? I can't seem to figure out why we are more satisfied with a human's answer or opinion above God's. We are not called to be hearers of the world but to be hearers of the Word. If God's voice isn't good enough then his Word should be right? No we feel the same about that too. We can trust in what it has to say more than we trust the small voice or thought in our head that comes from the Holy Spirit but only because it is in writing...it is an object that is visible to the eye. Why do we rely so much on the visibility of something? We believe in wind even though we can't see it. Why, because we can feel it. We may not be able to see God but we can sure feel him and his presence so why can't we trust it just as much as we trust that wind is wind?
So I ask again, what would happen if we all suddenly became deaf with no means of communication.
I feel that after a while of only being able to hear God's voice we would become dependent on it with no problem because that's the only thing we would be able to hear but why can't we do that now? But at the beginning, would our faith decrease rather than increase because we have grown so dependent on others? What if we lived our lives right now as if we were deaf and the only voice we could hear was God's. How much more intimate would our relationship with him be?
What if we were all to become deaf in an instant?
Now David basically grew up in a life of solitude being a shepard and learned to hear God's voice because that was the only one he heard. What if growing up, we were able to experience that kind of setting. Could it be that we would be on fire for God more than we are now? And if so, would our world still be growing as a Christian world rather than becoming a Muslim culture? Would our tiny spark spread like a wild fire across the land to the far corners of the earth all because of our time of solitude? Maybe this is why alone time with God is so important.
Yes going to church and hearing God's word being preached is important but what really brings us deeper is our alone time, our time in solitude with God. The time we set apart to hear from God and God alone. What if our days were categorized by spending more alone time with God than time with other people doing other things. Again, how different would our lives be? What kind of things would God be able to do through us?
I heard a quote recently that says, "Don't ask God to bless what you're doing, do what God is blessing." What if we payed more attention to hear God and see what he is blessing so we can do it and further his kingdom than try to do our own thing and hope he blesses it.
Just some things to think on...
Current Readings: Book of James and Know What You Believe by Paul Little.
Verse: "Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. But the man who looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom and continues to do this, not forgetting what he has heard but doing it - he will be blessed in what he does." James 1:22-25
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