Some prefer a list of do's and don'ts and someone giving them rules to live by, instead of walking in the liberty given in Jesus Christ. It takes hearing and responding to the Holy Spirit to be in perfect liberty and to keep from sin. Our liberty should not cause a weaker brother to stumble.
Jas 1:23 For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:
Jas 1:24 For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
Jas 1:25 But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
A minister on the radio was saying that God speaks to us all the time. Are
we too busy to hear or do we think it is our voice we hear? People like to say
that "God told me" when it comes to giving someone else advice, but how about
our own actions? Are we obeying the voice of God? Are we willing to do things
that are too hard for us to do? The LORD can work through us if we trust him. He
will not go against his word, so most of our hearing should come from reading
his word. Maybe he is telling us when we are doing our own thing, that we need
to read his word?
1Ki 19:12 And after the earthquake a fire; but the LORD was not in
the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.
After so much happens, the still small voice is heard. I suppose the
LORD must do some things to get our attention? Often we hear his voice telling
us to do what he has already told us to do. We are to respond to what we already
know to do for he loves us. Do you feel his love?
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