Learn To Listen AND Actually HEAR HIM

Getting to know Him

A group of children were sitting in a classroom. The teacher told the class that she would be right back. She instructed them to behave and to stay in their seats and remain quiet.

She exited the room and went to the principal’s office. She had been gone longer than she had anticipated. She asked the principal to check in on them on the intercom. He turned it on and heard them speaking loudly. He pushed the intercom button and said, “Children”. All the children rushed back to their seats and became very quiet. He then again said, “Children”. No one answered. All of the children started looking at each other with wide eyes. A third time he said, “Children”. One little boy became brave enough to respond, he said,”Yes, God?”

The moral of this is to always listen and know whom you are speaking to. Scripture says in,

John 10:1-5

10 “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door but climbs in by another way, that man is a thief and a robber. 2 But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. 3 To him the gatekeeper opens. The sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. 4 When he has brought out all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice. 5 yA stranger they will not follow, but they will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers.”

God speaks to us individually and as a whole. We find instruction in His Holy Word.

How do we recognize it is God speaking to us?

His sheep know His voice. This indicates that when God speaks, we are to make sure it lines up with His word. He will never instruct us to go against anything that is outlined in His word.

We have peace about it.