“VOICE!”

Me-Maw Thoughts

Number 624

March 28, 2023///

As I was asking God what He would have me share with you today I looked up and my eyes went to a book on my bookshelf.

The name of the book is “The Voice”. The book is actually about Sandi Patti, but it caused me to meditate on the Voice of God our Creator!

The horrible tragedy of the school shooting in Nashville yesterday shows the actions of someone listening to the voice of satan, who is out to kill steal and destroy!

“WHOSE VOICE ARE YOU LISTENING TO!”

You have two voice available to you! The heavenly Father who Loves you more than you can imagine or satan whose goal is not only to kill, steal and destroy you but to kill, steal and destroy through you.

We hear voices of people all around us, read social media, but ultimately those are either the voices from God or satan!

We are created as creatures of choice. We are not robots, and we chose whose voice we listen to.  And if we chose to listen to our Lord God Almighty, we are to pray for others that they would hear the voice of their creator. We are to pray that blinders come down from their spiritual eyes and stoppers from their spiritual ears that they will see and hear the truth of the Lord Jesus Christ!

Even after we receive Jesus Christ as our Savior and Lord we have a choice of the voice we listen to. The enemy of all that is good, satan, will fill you with doubt, fear and wrong thinking and direction if we listen.

His goal is to destroy everything good about your life! His goal is to lead you down a path going nowhere and fill you with lies.

Jesus said:

John 8:44-45 (KJV)
⁴⁴ Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
⁴⁵ AND BECAUSE I TELL YOU THE TRUTH, YE BELIEVE ME NOT.

The truth is our heavenly Father is pure truth and is full of Love and Compassion for us. When we listen to His voice, through the Word, preached, read or taught, It sets us free from the voices all around us that the enemy is pouring lies into!

How many will look at the shooting in Nashville and make the statement that if God was really love, why did that happen. May I tell you that the Lord God Almighty is weeping with those who have lost loved ones and will pour out His comfort as only He can do.

But we are creatures of choice and the young women who did this shooting had chosen to listen to the enemy rather than to her creator. Maybe it started with a hurt that turned into bitterness or unforgiveness that was let fester and grow.

Maybe it started with deciding to try some drug or alcohol to dull the pain or give her a high. Maybe it started by the rejection of someone she cared for.

Whatever the reason she chose to listen to the voices that did not love her nor have her good in mind!

Whose voice are you listening to?  Whose direction are you following? Are you listening to the still small voice deep within you, the voice that comes through the word, read or spoken, or are you so busy listening to other people, society, or political leaders, that the voice of the one who knows you best and loves you most is drowned out.

Salvation is a free gift bought and paid for by Jesus on the cross of Calvary, but it is our choice to accept or reject it.

After salvation it is our choice to listen to the voice that is truth and sets us free, or be a shallow Christian and follow voices that will cause us to be less effective for Christ Jesus than we are created to be!

It is our choice whether we choose to lift up others who are blind to their need of a Savior and pray that they will see and hear clearly the voice of the Love of our Abba Father, our Daddy God.

2 Peter 1:3 (KJV)
According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:

Isaiah 30:21 (KJV)
And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.

I encourage you to ask the Lord God Almighty to help you hear only His voice as you sit in His presence and go forth to be a light to the nations.

There are voices all around us! Whose voice are you listening to!

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Father, thank you that if we listen you will show us the way to go, the decisions to make, and the way to affect others for you. Open our ears to hear and our eyes to see, and our heart to understand your voice. I ask this in Jesus’ name! Amen!

Love, MeMaw