November 8, 2021
#8 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Thursday, September 23, 2021 This from A.W. Tozer in The Pursuit of God explains exactly why I started this writing project. He begins with the quote “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” (John 1:1)
An intelligent plain man, untaught in the truths of Christianity, coming upon this text, would likely conclude that John meant to teach that it is the nature of God to speak, to communicate His thoughts to others. And he would be right. A word is a medium by which thoughts are expressed, and the application of the term to the Eternal Son leads us to believe that self-expression is inherent in the Godhead, that God is forever seeking to speak Himself out to His creation. The whole Bible supports the idea that God is speaking. Not God spoke, but God is speaking. He is by His nature continuously articulate. He fills the world with His speaking voice.
November 9,2021
#9 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Saturday, August 28, 2021 God spoke to me about death today: He said He expected me to trust Him to have me prepared for that event.
November 10, 2021
#10 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Wednesday, September 29, 2021 “All is vanity and striving after wind.” I have struggled with the meaning of this verse, since it seems like there are many useful, helpful things we can do in this life. But it struck me today that he is referring to all that is ego-driven, all that is done with one’s self on the throne; everything from fantasy football to golf winnings to counting your number of likes on a post–is vanity and striving after wind. “Do justice, love mercy, and walk humbl;y with your God.”
November 11,2021
#11 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Thursday, September 16, 2021 I’m not even sure this qualifies as God speaking to me. I was playing in the club championship and playing badly. So I was concentrating on God’s presence and playing egoless golf. Quite a task! And all of the breaks in golf (lip-outs, bounces. moving trees) seemed to be going against me. But verses (“…in all things we are more than conquerors…”) would keep popping into my head reminding me of how I should react. It was the calmest day of bad golf I have ever played.
November 12,2021
#12 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2021 “Husbands, love your wives as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her.” Wow, what absurd instruction. I sat on my porch and realized I am incapable of loving Karen the way that Christ loves me. That is why the whole thing about wives submitting to their husbands should never enter any man’s mind. If I fall so short on my end of the bargain, how can I possibly worry about her end? That is the revelation I had on my back porch. Then I promptly went inside and got into an argument with Karen about how to prepare dinner. I’m glad God has a sense of humor.
November 13, 2021
#13 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
(This one follows on the previous one)
Monday, October 4, 2021 I told my brother-in-law about the above incident and we both agreed that God’s admonition to “love your neighbor” can be far more difficult when applied to our wives than to some homeless guy on the street. In fact, I think God’s highest purpose in the sacrament of marriage is to teach us how to truly love.
November 14,2021
#14 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Wednesday, August 18, 2021 I’m finding a wonderful perk in this project: Since I know I want to write at night (or next morning–I like thinking about it in bed), I pay more attention in the day to what God might want to say. And I get inundated with possibilities…a verse or a song lyric or some simple event or a word from a friend or any of a million spectacles of nature, or other ways I can’t imagine. I listened to Bob Dylan’s “I Contain Multitudes” today and realized Bob was talking about himself or me or God. And God’s intention is that we should come on in and look around.
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