Calvinism is like seeing that thing that you never saw before, but now that you see it, you can’t unsee it.
Then, others come along who still don’t see it, and argue incessantly that it’s not actually there.
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Question:
Almost all high-profile evangelical preachers teach that hearing the voice of God is crucial in our walk with Christ. If you don't hear God's voice (regularly apparently) then you don't have much of a relationship with God at all.
If that is true, have you ever wondered why it is that God gives us absolutely no instruction on how to hear Him speak?
In the New Testament we have the Gospels which give us the accounts of the birth, life, ministry, teachings, miracles, death and resurrection of Jesus. In Acts we have the birth of the church and spread of the Gospel. Throughout the rest of the NT we have loads and loads of doctrine and theology. We have instructions on ecclesiology, qualifications of elders, conflict resolution, church discipline, preaching, evangelism, spiritual gifts, trials, enduring persecution, eschatology, and on and on and on.
And yet, God does not offer us so much as one single syllable of instruction on this one thing that is supposedly at the very heart of our relationship with Him: how to hear His voice.
In none of the pastoral epistles - exactly where you would expect to find it - is there any help on how to hear God's voice. Not. one. syllable.
Why?
Could it be that there is no need for such instruction today because God speaks to us today through and only through His Word?
My 5 year old son has the hardest time going to sleep. He usually will get up out of bed at least once to test me.
Tonight it was twice. Exhausted and frustrated, I could feel my patience waning.
“Daddy!”
“COLTON, GO TO BED,” I barked.
“But daddy, I need you.”
And just like that, I melted. There was something about those words that pierced me. “I need you.”
There will come a day sooner than I’d like where he will say those words to me for the last time. Sons do not need their fathers forever, after all.
So, I walked into his room, I got on one knee and I told him how special it was to me that he needs me to put him to sleep every night. I told him he won’t need me like that anymore when he’s a grown man and so it makes tonight special. I feel like he understood. He was fully in the moment with me.
Then I rubbed his back and his head for a few minutes, kissed him, and said goodnight.
He was asleep 5 minutes later.
I realized that in that moment I could have easily lost my temper and scolded him for refusing to go to bed (something I’m guilty of doing before) — and I would have missed out on this absolutely priceless moment with my young son who is growing by the day. And for what?
The older I get, the more I realize how important the seemingly insignificant decisions we make all day every day really are. They compound just like an investment and over years, you could miss out on an unfathomable amount of value in the most priceless asset: time.
Going to try to remember this night.
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Saying, “I worship Jesus, but I don’t believe the Bible”… is really saying, “I worship a Jesus that I’m comfortable with, because I created Him with my own opinions, biases, & preferences.” That’s a fake Jesus.
Anything we know about the real Jesus comes from the Scriptures.