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How God talks to Us ...
Tuesday, Feb 17, 2015. Have you ever asked yourself, why God does not talk to us directly? Have you asked yourself, why he does not let leaflets fall from the sky if he wants to talk to us? How exactly is God talking to us, and why is he choosing this way?
Communication Issues …
Let us formulate the questions slightly differently: how is God talking to us? What is his way to communicate with us? How can we listen to him? How can we talk to him? How does he want us to live with him?
This topic of communication with the Lord is a very broad and wide area. The basic questions start with: “how do we know something about God at all?” How do we learn about him and from him? A part of this question is: how do we meet God? How can we listen to him? Does he talk at all?
When you search the bible for answers to the above questions, you discover a very rich set of texts. A key term here is prophecy - starting from the early believers until modern times, until today! Prophets are people speaking about God - speaking even the words of God. Prophets are the communicators. They are those who can tell, what God wants and what is is saying with respect to people, nations, social circumstances, ethics, - with respect to our past and our future.
Prophets - and Jesus! …
The bible is full of prophecy, starting with the five books of Moses, in its historical books, in its poetic books as well as in the classical prophetic books, and then in the New Testament. The New Testament is a highly prophetic book - with Christ Jesus in its center. About him, the letter of Hebrews says:
1 Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, 2 but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world. 3 He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. (Hebrews 1, 1-3)
It is good to ask: can I listen to God? Initially, the question might seem a little strange for the modern mind. But when you start to dig deeper, you realize how much God has spoken and how intensely God is speaking today. You just need to open your ears and your eyes and start to listen!
God's words are fantastic. They are full of truth, full of future, full of wisdom and love and understanding. God is truly magnificent, and it is worth to ask, worth to listen … and worth to follow him! (RWEP) ... more texts