God doesn’t reveal his
whole agenda all at once to us. Even if He does we cannot ever perceive and our
mind can never conceive it all. Hence His revelation comes gradually as time
progress. So it is must to hear His voice constantly and not dwell on the past
consideration. Don’t consider either you
got it all or you are so familiar with His ways because in Isaiah 55:8, 9 “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your
ways My ways, declares the LORD.As the heavens are higher than the earth, so
are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.”
Recently God have
taught me the importance of constant hearing of His voice. I would like to
explain you the intrinsic worth of this truth from the life of the two great
people - Noah and Abraham.
We all were so
familiar with Noah’s story that Lord reveals Noah that Lord going to put an end
to all people, for the earth filled with violence because of them. So He
decides to destroy both human and earth with forty days of flood-waters. Only Noah
and his family found favor in the eyes of Lord. As a result He said Noah to
build an ark with so and so measurement and to take with them so and so animals
and required foods for forty days survival in ark. And Genesis 6:22 and 7:5
clearly says Noah did everything as God commanded him.
But one thing I like
to emphasis the manner Lord commanded Noah to enter in to the ark and exit from
the ark which is in Genesis 7:7 and Genesis 8:16, former verse says Lord said
Noah to enter into ark along with his sons and followed by his wife along with
his son’s wives and Noah did as such. The latter verse says Lord said Noah to
come out along with His wife followed by his sons along with their wives. But
you know what Noah did? He came out as he entered into the ark. To facilitate you
can read in Genesis 8:18 which says, he came along with sons and his wife along
with his sons wives. You may ask what a big deal in it, when you read Genesis
9:18-27 you may understand that Noah did great blunder that he came along with
his sons so he lived in tent along with sons because of that when he was drunk
and lay uncovered in his tent, his youngest son was happen to see his father’s
nakedness. When Noah found out what his youngest son had done to him he cursed
his own son (Ham the father of Canaan) and his whole generation has become
cursed generation. If at all Noah doesn’t failed to hear the voice of Lord
constantly, he would have obeyed to what God had commanded o do thus he might
be lived in a tent along with his wife and his youngest son may not happen to
see his father’s nakedness and may not be cursed by his own father.
Now let’s come to Abraham the Father of Faith that in Genesis 22:2 only
Lord asked Abraham to sacrifice his only lovable son Isaiah as burnt offering
to Him and Abraham desperately obeyed the voice of Lord and took his son to the
place where lord showed him. There Abraham built an altar and arranged the wood
on it. He bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood.
Then he reached out his hand and took the knife to slay his son. At that moment
he again hears the voice of Lord which says, “Do not lay a hand on the boy and Do
not do anything to him” (Genesis 22:12) He consciously obeys the voice of the Lord
and did not laid his hand on the boy. Abraham was not just living out of what he
had heard from Lord but he was living out what he is hearing from
God. If at all like Noah, Abraham had stick on to what he heard from Lord then
he might have killed his own promised son.
What I’m trying to state from these both illustrations is that we all have
to learn to live out life by what we hear from Lord and only not by what we
heard from Lord. It is possible only
when we have intimate relationship with our creator the Lord and savior Jesus
Christ. Never have any pre-occupied mindset but have an open heart and mind to
hear from Lord constantly and to walk in His ways.
We were all more privileged than Noah and Abraham because we have Jesus as
our shepherd who said in John 10:27 that my sheep hears my voice. It is
more than a command. It is a promise. Jesus is the living word who instructs us
constantly and also has given Holy Spirit to guide us persistently. According
to John 8:47, whoever belongs to God hears what God says. So now through Jesus
Christ we belong to God and there is no doubt that we hear God’s voice. But learning
to hear His voice is not an event, it is day by day progression. You will hear
Him more clearly as you learn to discern His voice in every walk of your life
through intimate relationship with Him by reading bible and spending more time
in prayer. Constant hearing to the voice of God is true life style of every
believer.
According to John 5:24 as Jesus said “Very
truly I tell you, whoever hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has
eternal life and will not be judged but has crossed over from death to life.”
You will receive life, joy, peace and you will never miss out any of His
blessings upon your life as you learn to hear Him constantly.
(Note: My dear young friends, this article was written by Ms. Ayshwarya.
She is working as a guest lecturer in a college. GHG team thank Ms. Ayshwarya
for the article. May God bless her abundantly. If you wish to send your
article, mail it to goldenhandsofgrace@gmail.com)
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