Have We Heard From God This Morning?

  

Thought for Today -  April 8, 2023

 Have We Heard From God This Morning?

 By Robert A. Searles 

 Have we heard from God this morning? Every day we go to the mail box and receive letters and information from our loved ones who are separated from us by time and distance. We rejoice greatly when we have heard from them. How about the lover of our souls? Have we heard from him this morning? If we do not hear from God every new day then we are indeed in trouble. We become dry and barren and unfruitful spiritually. We were so made and designed by God to be as Jesus said – like branches from a tree that draw their life and sustenance from the vine and its' roots. If we have not heard from God today, is it because God has not spoken? No! God has spoken but we have not listened. “And now, because ye have done all these works, saith the Lord, and I spake unto you, rising up early and speaking, but ye heard not; and I called you, but ye answered not....”Jeremiah 7: 13. God was up before we were this morning, rising up early and speaking. If we have not heard from him it is because we are deaf to his voice. God speaks in a still small voice of calm, in the stillness of the night, and the quietness of the morning. “Be still and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen. I will be exalted in the earth.” Psalm 46:10. Psalm 23: 2 says: “he leadeth me beside the still waters.” Sheep will not drink where the waters are turbulent. They must drink from still waters. The good shepherd leads his sheep to still waters. The great shepherd of our soul leads us to still water where he can speak to us and allow us to draw our sustenance from him. If we have not heard from God this morning, perhaps it is because we have not followed our shepherd to a place of still waters where we can hear his still small voice of calm. “There is a place of quiet rest, near to the heart of God” We need to stop whatever we are doing, and sit down or lie down, and believe that - “God is, and that he is the rewarder of all them who diligently seek him.” Believe That - “God is spirit and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.” “Enter his courts with praise and thanksgiving.” Come into his courts in the name of his son, the Lord Jesus Christ. Put everything out of our mind except God and the glories of his son, the Lord Jesus Christ. Be quiet before him, recall the promises of his word. God is speaking to us from his written word in the still small voice of calm by the Holy Spirit. Let us be quiet and listen, We will hear from God and be blessed.