God Speaks

This last Sunday right before I got up to preach I felt like God put a tangent point on my mind that wasn’t already in my sermon. If that was all I felt, I probably would have added it to my preaching notes. But, I felt like the point was to be directed at a certain person. That’s what made me think it wasn’t something for the pulpit. I prayed that if God wanted me to say that thing during my sermon that He would remind me while I was preaching. He didn’t remind me and I didn’t say it. I didn’t even look at the person I felt like I was supposed to say it to. I didn’t see that person after service, so I didn’t tell them what I felt I was supposed to tell them.

On Tuesday I got an e-mail from that person. They said they were totally convicted, while listening to my sermon, and the things they were convicted about were exactly the things I felt I was supposed to say, but didn’t. I was blown away. It seems that God spoke the things directly to this person’s heart that He had put on my mind to say to them.

God still speaks to us. He speaks to us through His word. He speaks through others to us. He speaks to us directly. I’m so glad He does. It’s amazing to know He cares so much about us and has a direct relationship with us. I hope we will all obey when we get that feeling that God is saying something to us, directing us, even though we don’t hear an audible voice. And of course, I pray we will always obey His word. Because, God is good and wants the best for us. Don’t forget that. We don’t have an arbitrary God, who is pleased by giving us random things to obey, just so He can get a kick out of it, or ruin our fun. Rather, He is pleased by the same things that are good for us. He created us. He created the world we live in. So, He knows best how life works. And He cares deeply about us and our lives. So, we can trust that when He guides us to do something that it is good for us, as well as pleasing to Him when we obey.