Just Listen You Hard Head!

My entire life I have heard people say "God told me" or "I heard God say...." yet I never have been too sure that they knew what they were talking about. You see....I had never "heard" God's voice. In the past few years He has taught me that He speaks in sooo many ways other than words, and this week that has been extremely evident.

A few short days ago I was to help serve at a outreach project for my church. When arriving I obviously did not show up with a positive attitude as I said, "these things never seem to work." I never have seen direct fruit from handing out candy and info cards for church, and it frustrated me that I still did it. Well: God then laughed. He probably thought to Himself, "Ill show her." Minutes later I handed a piece of candy to a girl who looked at me with excitement, exclaiming she had been looking for a church but just did not know where to go or how to get there. Then there was a guy who said, "My friend had been harassing me to go to church the entire time I have been in college, I think I should go this time." Similar stories just flooded in, as I felt the slap in the face from God.

Finally came Scott. Scott did not know what He believed but He was searching. As sad as it is to admit, he knew the Bible better than I did, and He found it confusing. He told us that a few weeks ago he decided to trust God, but nothing happened; nothing changed.

Scott got me thinking. It is something everyone needs to realize; struggling Christians and unbelievers. God doesn't yell in your ear. He doesn't show up on your front porch. And though I beg Him to do it all the time; He doesn't drop signs out of Heaven telling you what decisions to make. He quietly whispers in your ear. Just like He told me not to underestimate, without having to use words. Just like He spoke through our leadership team's words and actions to touch the people we ministered too, and just like He will one day speak to and comfort Scott. God's voice is so easy to find, we just have to be looking, and believe it's there.

In John 10:4-5 it says, "And when he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them: and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice." 

We have to know His voice to follow it, and believe it is there to hear it.