Dr. Rick Mandl - September 8, 2020
How To Hear God Speak
How To Hear God Speak
Tuesday, September 8, 2020
Hey church family. It was exactly two months after the Israelites left Egypt that they arrived and set up camp at the base of Mount Sinai. You can read the whole story in Exodus 19. We’re told that... On the morning of the third day, thunder roared and lightning flashed, and a dense cloud came down on the mountain. There was a long, loud blast from a ram’s horn, and all the people trembled. The Bible goes on to say that, “ All of Mount Sinai was covered with smoke because the Lord had descended on it in the form of fire. The smoke billowed into the sky like smoke from a brick kiln, and the whole mountain shook violently. As the blast of the ram’s horn grew louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God thundered his reply.” This is one example, from the Bible, of one of the ways in which God speaks – but we shouldn’t use this as the only model of how he speaks.
In Job 33:13, Job said... “God does speak—sometimes one way and sometimes another—even though people may not understand it.” When God spoke to the prophet Elijah, Elijah was expecting some miraculous, earth-shattering, fire-filled experience - - maybe he was expecting to hear God the same way that Moses heard him on Mt. Sinai. But instead God spoke to him in a "gentle whisper." And it’s often the same for us today. But to hear that whisper we need to be still, and listen.
Hebrews 1 tells us... Long ago God spoke many times and in many ways to our ancestors through the prophets. 2 And now in these final days, he has spoken to us through his Son. God continues to speak to us through His Son, Jesus Christ, And because of what He’s done for us at the cross, we don’t have to wait at the base of a mountain while someone else, goes up the mountain on our behalf and then comes down to tell us what He’s said. “Because of what Jesus Christ has done for us at the cross, we can come boldly to the throne of our gracious God, where we will receive his mercy, and we will find grace to help us when we need it most.”
I pray that we will be taking Him up on that invitation today.
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