Today's Devotional

 

 June 18, 2009

            

Subject:  Let Him Talk

Job 11:2 - "Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man full of talk be justified?"

Job 11:4 - "But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against thee."

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I challenged the teenagers, in the Vacation Bible School class that I'm teaching, to spend some time alone with God.  I began by asking them about time they spent alone with their friends or relatives and asked them what they talked about.  I identified to them that when they spent time alone with with friends or relatives, there was always a two-way dialogue.  Before I introduced the words "two-way dialogue" I asked them about their time with God and as it is with many of us, our time alone with Him most always consists of us asking, thanking or pleading for Him to do something and then we end the conversation with the word, "Amen."  It's normally "one-way dialogue."  Doesn't that sound like a funny conversation to have with anyone?  Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah blah, blah blah blah. Bye.  

God is the best friend or relative that you could imagine and He would love to talk with you continually, but so many of us only spend time with Him when we want to ask for something or even just to say thank you to Him.  However, God has way more to say to us than we have to say to Him and He wants to keep the dialogue going all day and night.  But it's as though we hang up the phone line with Him when we're finished with what we have to say.  So when do we listen for what He has to say?   

Today we should stop talking and let Him talk to us.  If we would simply stop talking and let Him speak, we'd be amazed at how our lives would change. After my VBS class did this the first day, I had some of them respond with "how cool it was" to just sit and wait to hear God.  One student talked about how God was telling them to "humble themselves."  Is God saying something to you today that you can't hear?  It could be because you're talking over Him.  Let Him talk. 

Carlen