Posted: Nov 7, 07 2:25am
Filed under: Devotional editor @ 4:59 am
Joh 16:12 "I still have many things to tell you, but you can't bear them now.
Mental disorders often bring the question from a Psychiatrist, "Do you hear God's voice? Do you think you are Jesus? Does God speak directly to you?" Enough to make someone uncomfortable in speaking freely of our faith. Yet there are many ways God communicates to us and many helpful words He would love to say to us. He is not a God who leaves us to flounder on this earth while He sits and reigns in the heavens deaf to us and silent toward us.
Jesus could not tell His disciples all things, as we read many times that His disciples did not understand His sayings, therefore He could say nothing further. And until we put an honest effort into trying to know the Lord, as He knows us, we keep Him speechless toward us.
In the Bible God spoke at times in an audible voice. He also spoke through an inner voice, or a mental impression, dreams, nature and other people. And He still does. Sometimes a person will say the most perfect thing and we credit God for speaking through them to us. Good sermons, a beautiful sunrise, or what we women call "intuition." God still has many ways to tell us many things. The most important comes by reading the Bible each day. Learning Scriptures and learning what God is like.
If you desire for Jesus to have many things yet to tell you, you must invest time in listening and seeing. You must open yourself up to the possibility that God has a comforting or encouraging message for you to guide you. We must lose our fragile state of mind that someone will think we are crazy if we get a clear and divine sign from God that leads us to well-being. God is not the author of confusion. Jesus is the Good Shepherd and promises that His sheep hear His voice and follows Him. Once we trust Him to guide us into all the truth and in all components of our life, He will be pleased to reveal more to us. Put on your listening ears and seeing eyes. Jesus has many things yet to say to us.
