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Did God Really Just Speak to You?

What Difference Does It Really Make?

Does it really make a difference when we expect God to speak to us through the Scriptures rather than waiting to hear a divine voice in our heads?

I think it does.

When we know that God speaks personally and powerfully through his Word, we don’t have to feel that our relationship to Christ is subpar, or that we are experiencing a less-than-Christian life if we don’t sense God giving us extrabiblical words of instruction or promise.

When we know God speaks through his Word, we are not obligated to accept—indeed, we can be appropriately skeptical toward—claims by any book, teacher, preacher or even friend when they write or say, “God told me … .”

We don’t have to wait until we hear God give us the go-ahead before we say “yes” or “no” to a request or make a decision. We can consult the Scriptures and rest in the wisdom and insight the Holy Spirit is developing in us, and feel free to make a decision.

As we delight ourselves in the law of the Lord day and night, we can expect his Word to be living and active in our inmost parts. As that Word transforms us by the renewal of our minds, we will find that our thoughts and feelings, dreams and desires, are being shaped more by his Word than by our flesh.

We will find that we are more drawn to obey his commands than to follow the culture. We will ask him for wisdom and receive it out of his generosity.