Good morning…
“Love this Sue!” she wrote after yesterday’s post Does God Really Speak? “I think God speaks most clearly through us, in and through His creation – if we are paying attention. For me, one of the most powerful experiences of God’s timing came from me responding to the inspiration of a sudden breeze and a simultaneous thought popping into my head while sitting alone on a porch swing staring at the Tetons. It’s a long story but I felt an urgency to do something I’d been putting off and the end result proved to me that responding, not on my preferred timeline but in the moment the Spirit spoke, allowed me to surrender to God’s will for my life.”
She went on to write: “I heard a sermon about Matthew 7:14 which focused on the word “find” – the narrow gate is found not shown, which implies a search. Seek and you will find. For me I have found that making quiet space allows me to receive those in-the-moment gentle nudges. And quite often they don’t make sense if we follow the efficient, ordered rules of the world. That’s the real beauty of it – we are following God’s rhythms, not the world’s. And, finally, I have found the risk of being vulnerable is often involved.”
“I love these thoughts,” I responded. “Might share them with our readers? Together we are learning to hear our invisible, mysterious God in the midst of our ordinary lives, FINDing God guiding us in surprising ways. It feels freeing to be in sync with God’s Spirit, trusting God to move us along the path of a Divine, higher will. I agree with you wholeheartedly, hearing God’s movement does take our ongoing commitment to “make quiet space” daily, giving God room to nudge, to speak, and to lead in unpredictable ways.”
[Act on What You Hear] Post this at all the intersections, dear friends: Lead with your ears, follow up with your tongue, and let anger straggle along in the rear. God’s righteousness doesn’t grow from human anger. So throw all spoiled virtue and cancerous evil in the garbage. In simple humility, let our gardener, God, landscape you with the Word, making a salvation-garden of your life (James 1:19-21, MSG).
…Sue…
P.S. Thanks to Gina MacFarland, our talented SueToYou.com web designer, for this colorful photo capturing the colorful sound of God’s moving Spirit.
