“What’s the good word,
Everyone has something to say,
Have you heard,
The latest gossip of the day?
(Author Unknown)
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Words. Everyone has a certain number of them that they have to say each day. Some are people of few words, and others never seem to run out. I remember when my boys were little. There were times when all they wanted to do was talk. “Daddy, why is the sky blue?” “Daddy, why are people mean?” “Daddy, daddy, daddy.” During the endless questions I had to be careful not to teach my sons that men don’t talk, they grunt. They trotted off and within the hour they were back. Children are relentless.
Our heavenly Father wants us to be relentless in our pursuit of a conversation with Him. Sometimes it may seem one sided. Yet, He has spoken to us in His Word, 807,361 words to be exact. In one year that’s approximately 2,200 words a day. Not much when you think the average man and woman speak 15,000 words a day each. But if you compact Gods word by focusing on reading His 2,200 words in Scripture, God speaks to you a whole lot more than you realize.
The reason we don’t think God speaks is because we are not listening. And as relentless as God wants for us to pursue him, he wants us to be quiet and let Him speak. Consider Solomon’s wisdom. “Be not rash with your mouth, nor let your heart be hasty to utter a word before God, for God is in heaven and you are on earth. Therefore let your words be few.” Ecc. 5:2. The key is silence. Solomon also said, “Ecclesiastes 9:17 The words of the wise heard in quiet are better than the shouting of a ruler among fools.
As you go to the Father in prayer, spend more time listening to Him than you do asking from Him. You will be surprised how much He has already said to you. I’m just saying…
From the Bunker Day 50
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