“But my people did not listen to my voice;
Israel would not submit to me.
So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts,
to follow their own counsels.
Oh, that my people would listen to me,
that Israel would walk in my ways!
I would soon subdue their enemies
and turn my hand against their foes.
Those who hate the LORD would cringe toward him,
and their fate would last forever.
But he would feed you with the finest of the wheat,
and with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.”
(Psalm 81:11-16 ESV)
We will be ok, if we can only listen to God. Pharaoh’s heart was hardened by God and did what he did because God was using him. We all can be in God’s good graces if we only listen to Him. and we all know how easy that it!
How easy is it to listen to God?
When you aren’t sure what His voice sounds like? Is that me or is that God? The sound of a thought passing through your mind that seems like something foreign to you, could it be God, or the devil leading you astray?
Or does God speak to us through the community of gathered believers we worship with? Well that would be only if God is speaking to them. And they have not been lead astray as the above psalm tells us.
How do you know if you are listening to the Lord? It is not easy, and if everything you are doing seems to be something you have done before and it doesn’t push your thoughts or imagination or your faith, you may not be hearing God right, but you may… God speaks in many and various ways. We have to be listening to hear Him and ready and able to follow when He calls and leads us.
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