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THE VOICE OF THE LORD

“My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.” (John 10:27).    “Every one that is of the truth heareth My voice.” (John 18:37).   “And this voice which came from heaven we heard...” (2 Peter 1:18).   God wants every one of His children to learn to hear and recognize the voice of his Master and Lord.  God delights to speak to His children and to have them speak to Him.  It is this intimate relationship – this divine fellowship – which God has desired from the dawn of creation.  Man lost that close relationship with God by Adam’s fateful error; but now, in Christ Jesus, it is regained.   When the Lord called Paul to serve Him, He sent a disciple by the name of Ananias to lay hands on Paul to restore his eyesight and speak these words to him: “ The God of our fathers hath chosen thee, that thou shouldest know His will, and see that Just One, and shouldest hear the voice of His mouth.  For thou shalt be His wit...
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FOLLOWING THE CLOUD

Good is always the enemy of best.  Doing good things for God is not the same as doing the thing that God asks us to do.  We can fill our lives with many religious activities and good works, and still be disobedient to God because we do not do the thing that He asks.  Saul, the first King of Israel, fell out of favor with God by offering a great sacrifice to the Lord instead of simply obeying what he had been told to do.  Jesus told a rich ruler who had kept all of the commandments since he was a child that he yet lacked one thing from having eternal life.  That man walked away grieved because, despite all his devotion, he could not do the one thing Jesus asked.   After being delivered from the Egyptian army at the Red Sea, the Israelites were then lead by Moses into the Desert of Sinai.   God had told them that He would lead them to a land flowing with milk and honey - the Promised Land - but they didn’t know where that was!   They didn’t know...
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THE PATH OF THE JUST

“But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.” (Proverbs 4:18).     There is a path that we all must walk through this life.  It is the course that each of us must run from birth to death.  The Bible teaches that the path of the just (those who have accepted Jesus Christ as Savior) is a much different road than that of the wicked (those who have not accepted the Lord). Among the just, there is a lot of diversity in the way that people choose to walk their path with God.  Christians are at all levels of growth and spiritual maturity.  Some grow rapidly, moving from faith to faith as they learn to apply God’s Word to their lives, while others seem content to live as they always have and never seek to climb to a higher plain.  We must be careful not to judge or condemn those we feel don’t “measure up” to our standards or preferences, however.  Jesus told Nicodemus, “ For God sent not His Son i...
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