Tune in
your spiritual eyes and ears and be attentive to the Holy Spirit’s directives.
It’s important for you, your family, and in corporate group matters as well.
June’s Awakening, Day 19
There is a way of ordering our mental
life on more than one level at once. On one level we may be thinking,
discussing, seeing, calculating, meeting all the demands of external affairs.
But deep within, behind the scenes, at a profounder level, we may also be in
prayer and adoration, song and worship and a gentle receptiveness to divine
breathings.
—Thomas Kelly
It is not enough to hold that God did
great things for our fathers: not enough to pride ourselves on the inheritance
of victories of faith: not enough to build the sepulchers of those who were
martyred by men unwilling, in their day of trial as we may be in our own, to
hear new voices of a living God. Our duty is to see whether God is with us;
whether we expect great things from Him; whether we do not practically place
Him far off, forgetting that, if He is, He is about us, speaking to us words
that have not been heard before, guiding us to paths on which earlier
generations have not been able to enter.
—Brooke Foss Westcott
Then
He said, “Go out, and stand on the mountain before the Lord.” And behold, the
Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind tore into the mountains and broke
the rocks in pieces before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind; and
after the wind an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake; and after
the earthquake a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire; and after the fire a
still small voice. So it was, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in
his mantle and went out and stood in the entrance of the cave. Suddenly a voice
came to him, and said, “What are you doing here, Elijah?” 1 Kings
19:11–13 NKJV
Guidance.
The spiritual discipline of guidance is also both inward and corporate. We
may think of it primarily as inward, but there are many times where a church or
group needs direction and it becomes important for all the members to hear
God’s directives clearly. Furthermore, families often need guidance in major
decisions such as location changes, job changes, home purchases and other
important decisions where both spouses need to hear clearly from God and be in
agreement.
Guidance is all about listening and
hearing clearly the directives of God and following through accordingly. The
better our listening skills, the better able we will be in understanding His
guidance for us. The Holy Spirit may speak to us in a myriad of ways, but most
the time His still small voice will be perceived as a leading or prompting or
an opening up of the mind or an inner voice or testimony to a given course of
action. Oftentimes, the information just seems to pop in out of nowhere or we
have a strong sense of His affirmation towards a given choice. The more we
listen and hear Him, the more accustomed to His whisper we will become. Once we
believe that we have heard from the Holy Spirit, then we should seek
confirmation from another person or another source where God may confirm what
we believe we have internally heard.
Tomorrow we will look deeper into
the aspects of divine guidance.
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