6 December 2019.......why is .....grrrr

What  does the Lord sound like?

In the Old Testament, it says

“And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the Lord. And, behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the Lord; but the Lord was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the Lord was not in the earthquake:

And after the earthquake a fire; but the Lord was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.” 1 Kings 19:11-12 

This is the typical way the Lord works, “a still small voice.” He is always talking to us. Are we listening?

There have been other times recorded in scripture, when the Lord works slightly different. 

First, Paul the apostle. He was on his way to do bad things, and let bad things be done, to the early Christians. Then he was stopped by what most of us would consider a miraculous event and he became one of the very people he was, or had been trying to pursue. 

Second, Alma the younger, the prophet and high priest among the Nephites. When he was younger he went around with others trying to destroy the church. Finally, while he was traveling, like Paul, he and the group he was with was stopped by an angel. Definitely not typical. 

So these are just two examples of how the Lord doesn’t usually work. Some of us might want an experience like that but that is not how the Lord works most of the time. 

We have to remember “still small voice.”

At times he has to get someone’s attention in a very dramatic moment. The Lord knows who he needs to do his work. He might have to get some people’s attention in a very dramatic way but I doubt that is his method of communication in future events. 

Does The Lord communicate with me. Of course. I would say that He communicates with everyone at times and in some fashion. He is always “talking” to us. Are we listening?

Like Christ taught. 

“... what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?

 Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?

 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?”

Matthew 7:9-11

Everything is in His time. We can’t expect everything to be in our time. If everything happened in my time I would be walking. But I shouldn’t complain. I always have a place to sit down.