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Topic:
God's Hidden Messages
God can and does send us messages, often hidden, pointing us in the
direction He wants to go.
Most people do not get letters, faxes, or email from God. This does
not mean He cannot send letters, faxes, or email and it does not mean He
won't send them. Letters, faxes, and email from God just simply do not
happen that often. However, God still communicates with us. God
communicates with us if we are willing to listen. He communicates with
us if we are willing to look at our life and be painfully honest with
ourselves and with Him.
If you could draw a map of your life from your previous days, weeks,
months, and years you would see a pattern emerging. As an exercise, let
us say you draw a map or list all your failures and successes. In the
exercise, you would want to list your failures and successes in all your
relationships. You would include all your connections to all the things
of life, and list all the situations in which you have ever found
yourself, both good situations and bad ones. In your list, you would
also want to list all the mistakes you have made and the wrongs you have
committed or thought. After you have done all this, you would see your
life pointing in certain directions. Looking at your life map, you would
see some of the directions in which you have gone are directions you
wanted to pursue while other directions were ones which were not your
choice.
In the final analysis, the course of the events of our lives can be a
lesson for us if we are willing to see the hidden forces of God at work.
Hidden in the events of your life is the hand of God at work. Even in
the darkest days and times, God is always trying to influence us. God is
always trying to touch us. God is always trying to align our hopes and
dreams with His will. Because of God's will always working on us and
within us, we need to be sensitive and aware of the direction in which
His will is pushing or pulling us. Let us use the example of drawing a
life map to look at a real life circumstance about how we can be
sensitive to God's touch. Let us say you find yourself sitting in jail.
Let us assume you have lost your driving privileges because you were
arrested for drunk driving. Let us also say you have lost several jobs
because of your drinking problem. In jail, you find yourself alone, with
no one coming to see you or caring about you. Sitting in jail, if you
draw your life map, you should see a pattern. What you should see are
many wrong turns. Looking at your map, you should see every time you
make a wrong turn or make a mistake, bad things happen. However, every
mistake, every wrong turn, every painful memory in life contains a
message from God. Likewise, every success, every joy, every good memory
contains a message from God. Figuring things out in life can sound
incredibly simple. However, in reality figuring things out is not always
easy because we often get obvious and blatant messages from God
requiring we look at our life in realistic ways.
If these words have been a blessing, please forward them to a friend
These words were posted at one of Shepherd's Care
Ministries Sites called Wisdom Moment, The site is located at:
http://www.findthepower.com/wisdomminute
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