Read: Genesis 1: 1 - 27
After 100 consecutive days of devotion and prayer a new series of daily devotions titled 'Listening to God' is about to begin. I have been truly honored and humbled that God has seen fit to include me as being worthy to be one of His instruments blessed with the honor passing along portions of His great wisdom. It is the dawn of a new morning. It is a new morning borne like so many others before it, spoken into its own unique existence by the still small almost imperceptible voice of God. Can you hear it? Are you listening for it? Do you long to hear the voice of God speaking into your heart?
Through out this morning's Scripture passage, are several remarkable, seemingly impossible phrase "Then God said ...." When I step back for a moment to consider these words is "Okay, but who or what was listening?" I mean there had to be a truly remarkable pair of ears out there that were tuning in to the vast silence of the great void. But, whose ears could consciously listen so intently and patiently and discern the voice of God? Somebody absolutely had to be listening or there could not be the stars, the Sun. Where would any of us be today if there was no one was listening or doing? I do not know the answer for sure. However it makes sense that creation itself is the one that is listening.
Do you have a longing to hear the whisper of God's voice? The still small voice heard by creation itself at the dawn of all the new beginnings? Deep down within the very core of our being, we all have a longing for something beyond ourselves. However, such a longing cannot ever be satisfied unless we deliberately place ourselves in a position to listen to Him. Since the very dawn of all creation, God has long desired to create within us a willing heart and an open mind so His voice can be heard. God has had a message for each of us every day. Like creation itself, we wants us all to listen.
God, in His grace has made it possible to hear His voice in a variety of ways: through the beauty and splendor of the natural order of creation. We hear His voice through His written Word, through the ministry and teachings of only His Son Jesus Christ. We hear what He has to say through the ministry of the Holy Spirit speaking to our hearts in the relationships we develop as we love God and our neighbor with all we have within us. In so many ways too numerous to try and count God is speaking now. God desires to reveal himself to us. He desires us to listen and to hear what He has planned too.
Lord, As you spoke to Creation itself and it listened, speak to us the Ancient wisdom that we may hear and listen to Your great plan for us. Reveal Yourself to our hearts.
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WHISPERS OF MY FATHER - ANCIENT WORDS by Michael W. Smith with Lyrics
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