~By: Stephen McClelland
Are you struggling with hearing God?
The biggest change for me happened when I started thinking relational and stopped thinking religiously about God.
I realized that God wanted to talk to me. I realized that He knew how to make it obvious that He was talking to me. I never worry about whether “my ears are in tune”, or whether my “receiver is in alignment”. Ever.
It would be rude if I asked someone a question and they only answered in riddles. Religion says that God probably won’t answer you clearly and there are plenty of reasons why. In relationship, if you said something the other person didn’t understand, you would try to help them get it.
Religion says that God keeps talking when He knows you aren’t listening. You should have been paying more attention! Relationship says God will get your attention and make sure that you hear Him.
Good relationships are never one sided, where religion usually is. Religion says that it’s your fault you can’t hear God. Relationship says that even if you are at fault, God can get to you anyway. That’s the gospel.
I don’t have ANYTHING that I need to do to be able to hear from God clearly. I hear Him when I’m doing good, and when I’m doing bad. When I’m spiritual, and when I’m in the flesh. It’s so contrary to the gospel to think that you need to get your life sorted out before you can hear from God. It’s even more important that I hear God when I’m struggling.
It’s so contrary to the gospel that God loved you enough to send His son to die for you but now you aren’t worth speaking to.
When you talk to Him, think relational. Nothing is stopping you from hearing God.
God bless.