HEARING GOD IN ALL THE RIGHT PLACES

    When I assured one man about our prayers for the upcoming away-doctor visit for his wife he commented, “I think you have a lot of people you pray for.”  He is right but many times I do not pray as much as I ought. 

    I read a book by Charles Stanley about listening to God and one of the points he emphasized was that we need to “Be still…” and listen to God.

     Since God is my Father it does stand to reason that the communication should not be all one way…and God’s communicative skills are so far superior to my own!  He deserves far more attention than I give Him as well as far more praise.  His creations speak to me and I hear them perhaps more than many other ways of His communication directed to me. 

    How many times do I stop to look at a flower as though it were speaking to me of God’s presence?  I often realize that God has created such but do I let it speak of God’s love of beauty created for my pleasure?  And what about the sound of a waterfall and the beauty of a rainbow created by the sun shining through the spray? 

    I am not saying worship the creation but be aware of the Creator!  The song says, “All nature sings and ‘round me rings the music of the spheres.”  How true!  When “a picture is worth a thousand words,” do we even think of how many trillions of pictures we take with our eyes on a daily basis?  Wow!  What a gift when we can see! 

    And what is more pungent than the smell of a freshly cut orange or lemon?  Do we think to say, “Thank You that I can smell that wonderful smell”?  Does this help us better understand what a sweet-smelling savor is to God?  How does such a sweet smell make you feel?  Maybe like you want to take a taste?

     Oh, and the wonderful feel of a baby’s snuggly soft-haired head resting close in that particular place on your shoulder/neck area, the feel of the soft breath in and out, in and out, on your skin, and the wonderful gift from that child of trust!  Can we think how this feeling comes from God perhaps as a lesson to hear regarding our trust in Him and how it makes Him feel?  

    In all these busy moments of life, let’s be sure to “be still” and pay attention to God.

© M. Sue                                                                                                 8-11-06                Revised 9-8-2014