Making Friends with the Voice of God
Written on September 3, 2011
Right on the heels of turbulences ending with last week’s Irene, it was not so easy to read Psalms 29. The Psalmist saw the Voice of the Lord splitting the cedars of Lebanon with such force as to make them skip away like a calf or a young wild ox. The Voice of the Lord divides flames of fire; it strips the forests bare and causes the deer to go into premature labor.
But the One behind the Voice is the Lord whom we have cultivated a trust and walk and love these years of relative calm. The unseen roots of this loyalty, allegiance are going to be tested. Do we love Him? Can we endure? Misty Edwards sings: “I want to be with You, not against You. I want to be with You where You are. I don’t want to be offended when it’s all coming down…”
Paul warns his beloved Timothy to stay strong with speaking Voice of God, for a time is coming when people will not endure sound doctrine (2 Tim 4:3). There is an endurance sound teaching requires: “to hold up, to hold one’s self, erect and firm, to sustain, to bear…”
Hear the word to let Him speak today in this cultivating prelabor time.
“See to it that you do not refuse Him who speaks…we [will] not escape if we turn away from Him who speaks from Heaven. Whose Voice then shook the earth, but now He has promised, saying, ‘Yet once more, I shake not only the earth, but also Heaven’” (Hebrews 12:25-26).
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