Are You Listening to God?

One of the components of my daily times with God is reading from the classic devotiaonal book My Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Champbers.  Today's entry was titled, "Are You Listening to God?"  The reading included these statements:

     We show how little love we have for God by preferring to listen to His servants rather

     than to Him. We like to listen to personal testimonies, but we don’t want God Himself to   

     speak to us. Why are we so terrified for God to speak to us? It is because we know that   

     when God speaks we must either do what He asks or tell Him we will not obey. But if it

     is simply one of God’s servants speaking to us, we feel obedience is optional, not

     imperative. We respond by saying, “Well, that’s only your own idea, even though I don’t

     deny that what you said is probably God’s truth.”

When we read God's word--the Bible, we're hearing God speak.  Sometimes we'd rather let others read the book to us and interpret it for us.  Then, if we don't like what we're told, we can dismiss it.  But God's truth IS God's truth and only when we obey it do we enjoy the blessings He promises!