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“I wish that hearing the voice of God was as easy as reading, but it’s not.”

A thought by Mark Batterson from his book, Whisper: How to Hear the Voice of God (p. 76). The Crown Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. (Click on the book title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.)

Oh, we want to make everything easy, don’t we?  Or we make things too difficult so we won’t try.

Mark says, “I wish that hearing the voice of God was as easy as reading, but it’s not. It requires meditating, praying, and contemplating. Ironically, it’s only as we slow ourselves down that the Holy Spirit quickens us. But there is one more piece to the puzzle.

“’Christianity has not so much been tried and found wanting,’ said G. K. Chesterton, ‘as it has been found difficult and left untried.’ You can’t just read the Word, meditate on it, pray through it, and contemplate it. You have to do it. Until you obey it, you’ve simply been educated beyond the level of your obedience.”

Mark goes on, “’I wonder what would happen,’ said Peter Marshall, ‘if we all agreed to read one of the Gospels until we came to a place that told us to do something, then went out to do it, and only after we had done it…began reading again?’ I’ll tell you exactly what would happen: God’s kingdom would come and His will would be done! That’s what happens when hearers of the Word become doers of it.

“Just do it. Then see what God does!”


So, let’s do what it says, Ok?
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