When I don’t want to listen

Sometimes God is speaking through circumstances… and I don’t want to listen. Family and friends’ comments bounce through the air echoing and amplifying the very thing I am trying to ignore. Eventually, the noise is so loud

I have to face it.

It is easier to ignore. It is easier to rationalize, question, make excuses. At least in the short run. But in the long run, making excuses, questioning, rationalizing eats away at the very person God has created and is calling me to be.

Ignoring God makes me question not God, but… me.

I don’t know a lot. I’m a simple thinker. But this I know: I’m the best me (we’re all the best “we”) when I am living faithfully with God – hearing his still small voice, especially when I don’t want to. That is faith.

 

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