God’s Work

– June 22, 2017 – 

How does God want us to live? God wants us to be coachable, I think. Coachable at the speed of His voice. God speaks to us with a small voice from inside us, from the voices of those around us, the words on paper that we read, and the actions of others that we see. His Holy Spirit is inside us  and all around us. Some call this voice inside intuition, or gut feelings. Whether you’re a believer or not, that internal voice is unmistakable. Trouble comes to us when we don’t listen to it.

Paul wrote about this when he said, “For what I am doing, I do not understand; for I am not practicing what I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate.”(Romans 7:15) How many times have we said when asked about something we’ve done, “I don’t know (why I did that).” When all the while we knew what we should have done. When we don’t listen to His voice, we make a mess that has to be cleaned up.

God does not want to leave us bound to the mire and the muck of our past mistakes. Michelangelo sculpted  four slaves “stuck within the very marble from which they were carved.” (Amy Peterson, “Unfinished Works,” Our Daily Bread 6/28/2017) God is the great sculptor, and He can be found in the details of our past when we look back. God wants us to turn to Him to chip away the marble from our lives. This takes faith on our part that He knows the direction of our life. “Faith is the assurance of things hoped for, and the certainty of things not seen.”(Hebrews 11:1)  “So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of God.”(Romans 10:17) He is the great navigator.

By His navigation though, we are to take action. He wants us to do what He tells us to do, just like we want our children to do what we tell them to do. We know what is best for them, right? Well, just because we are adults, doesn’t mean we are not still children of God. We should take action and be coachable always to the voice of God. That is why I started this ministry, God spoke to me in a few different ways culminating in His word when I read Ezra 10:4 “Arise! For this matter is your responsibility, we will be with you; be courageous and act.” May God bless you today.

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