I have been taught, and I feel confident that it is correct, that God speaks to me through The Bible, through prayer, through circumstances and through other people. Of course, that happens only if I "listen" through those things, and realize that the "voice" is directed at me.
Another belief that goes along with this is that nothing happens in my life without a purpose. If God is in control of everything, and He is, and if He cares about me, which He does, then the circumstances of my life reflect His desire for me to grow into the likeness of Jesus. Whatever the circumstances look like, they are meant by God to be good, although not always in the short term.
There are at least a couple of things coming into my life right now that have the potential to be life changing. So do I look at them, if indeed they do happen, as a blow to my plans for my latter years, or do I trust that God is using them for His higher purpose?
Chambers says today: "As long as you maintain your own personal interests and ambitions, you cannot be completely aligned or identified with God's interests. This can only be accomplished by giving up all of your personal plans once and for all, and by allowing God to take you directly into His purpose for the world. Your understanding of your ways must also be surrendered, because they are now the ways of the Lord."
It is far easier for me to shrug my shoulders in resignation and say "whatever", than to place God in the center of it all and say " I don't know what it all means, but I trust You".
But, as always, it is also much easier to contemplate this and write it down, than to walk through life's circumstances in the assurance of it's truth. For that, I need much more than my own strength.
God, help me to see Your hand in all that life brings my way, even today.
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