The voice of God!

 

Yesterday, I asked a question at our weekly “Young Adults” meeting and the gist of it went something like this, what do you value most about God? The answers were the love of God, the grace of God and the like. Which are all traits filled with God’s goodness, which we will always be indebted to Him for, but that is not the correct answer. It’s heeding or paying particular attention to His voice and then looking for His grace in our lives to find the application to His instruction, come what may. Everything in creation came forth by the voice of God; “And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.”  (Genesis 1:3)

 

Let us pause here for a second, I want you to visualize that if possible, God, the Great I AM, the One who had no beginning nor will He have an end, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob opened His mouth and commanded light to come forth and it happened. Maybe it’s just time to start processing what He has to say to us in and through His penned Word, the Bible. We should value all scripture, its instruction is for our benefit. An advantage for His children, the lost do not ever reference the Bible to find direction for their lives. But the Christian most certainly does.

 

So the power of God’s Word certainly packs a punch, just look at creation and it will blow your mind. Don’t just look at a sunset and say; “how beautiful” or “it’s so peaceful”. The next time something from creation blows your mind, I want you to say, how awesome is our God and then to process the mechanics behind it all, it was the voice of God that brought that into existence. He speaks and it happens, period!

 

The Apostle John, the disciple of love, starts his gospel by highlighting the WORD! “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”  (John 1:1)  - Then later the Word became flesh in the form of Jesus the man, who then defeats Satan, sin and death and makes away to re-establish the void that Satan inflicted on mankind, a way back to the Creator. Jesus pays the price for our sin. One of my preferred topics, all hail King Jesus!

 

It’s crucial we learn to value the voice of God as our number one priority in our lives, because the enemy, the serpent of old, the one also known as the devil and Satan uses deception to thwart the voice of God. It’s his ace in the hole. It’s his number one weapon, he gets a Christian to question the voice of God and their demise will soon follow. We believe, because God has said, period! You don’t have to completely understand His infinite plan, all we need to do is trust Him with our whole hearts. We know that God is for his children, praise God!

 

Just a brief history about Satan, he was created perfect in beauty and full of wisdom and then pride entered into his heart and he challenged his Creator, he challenged God and was able to deceive one third of the angles, the very same angels that lived in the presences of God who then denounces their creator and followed the devils tyranny. Now think about that for a while. How could he achieve such a massive shift in heaven? What it does tell me, he certainly carries some weight. It would be foolish for us to dismiss that. God casts Satan and his followers (Angels) out of heaven, they are banished to the earth. How do we know that? Read the account of Job. Satan is a created being and therefore is not omnipresent, he cannot be at all places at the same time. It’s important to understand that. He now institutes his specific purpose, which is to defy God by deceiving mankind and getting them to question the voice of God, exactly the same way he must have enticed one third of the angels. “And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world—he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.” (Revelation 12:9)  - The fact, he is the deceiver of the whole world and we must not walk into his trap. His objective, to deceive, so by hook or by crook he looks to undermine the voice of God.

      

God then creates mankind, male and female He created them. We all aware of our beginning, Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. I am now moving into the importance of this post, please pay attention. Its here where the serpent, Satan beguiles Eve and how does he do it? He questions Gods instruction to Adam; “And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”’ (Genesis 2:16-17) – Eve was not present, I believe she was yet to be created. How did she then receive the instruction? We are not told, but we can deduce that Adam must have informed her about the forbidden tree.

 

Here is what is interesting, he approaches the woman; “Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?””  (Genesis 3:1) - We all know the end too well and we have all suffered under the bondage of sin in our lives. Eve is then deceived and she eats from the forbidden tree. She believed what Satan fed her to be the truth. That is what deceived means, to believe a lie to be true. Adam also ate but he was not deceived. I wonder if he was taken by her beauty and therefore placed his need for her above the voice of God? He obviously willfully sinned. 

 

Here is the proof; – “and Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor.”  (1Timothy 2:14)

 

What then is the lesson we need to take out of this account, we must believe the voice of God in every area of our lives, if it is to end well. Satan is now deceiving the world with the same plot as he did in the beginning, he is setting up women and the liberal movement that is now in full flow to make his grand entrance as the antichrist. His message will be “has God actually said.” Many religious organizations are buckling under the "worlds voice" and allowances across the board are being accepted as the norm. They are playing directly into the hands of Satan.   

 

To my beloved sisters in Christ, do not be sucked into the web of his deceit, stand upon the finished work of the cross and make your voice heard. We need your support more than ever, the battle is fierce, but it’s going to get a lot worse. Find you place in the body of Christ and heed the voice of God and take up your intended roles, as it will pay great dividends in eternity, to God be the glory now and forever more, Amen and Amen!

 

Signing off

 

Tyrone