Be Open to What God is Telling You

Devotion For 2014 Bahamas Trip

I was chosen to write a devotion for CCA's next generation of eight graders on their Bahamas trip in 2014. Enjoy

Be Open To What God is Telling You

1^st Kings 19:11-13

Marcos L.

            Has God ever spoken to you before? The right answer to this question, is yes. You may be thinking that God has never spoken to you before, when in reality He’s always trying to talk to us and get our attention. In the Bible, it says God speaks in a still, small whisper. He doesn’t literally whisper to us, but He tries telling us things by what we read in the Bible or what we learn while going through trials. We normally think of the voice of God as booming like thunder, but that’s not the case at all. We compare God’s voice to a whisper because it’s so easy to miss what He wants to tell us and drown out His calls.

            The problem we as humans have with hearing this voice of God is by the way we drown it out with the world. What that means is that we can get so caught up in what the world has to offer that we forget that God has something even greater. That’s a good description of how I was living my life before the Bahamas Mission Trip. I was filling my life with worldly desires until I didn’t want to have anything to with God. Yet, it gets worse from there. At school and church, I would present myself as this great spiritual person, even though I wasn’t. I’d then go home and do the opposite of what I would say, living a lie like a hypocrite. See, I was really good at talking the talk but nowhere near walking the walk. This all changed on the trip when my Bible teacher, Mr. Fanning, casually went up to me and told me to be open to what God was telling me. That was when I realized I was doing everything but; I was doing everything I could to keep God out of my life and utterly reject and avoid Him in every way possible. Initially, I wasn’t drifting away from God on purpose, but that’s just what happens when you let the world take a hold of you. Sin has a way of sneaking into your life and blinding you so blind and indifferent of the Way, the Truth, and The Life. After understanding that I wasn’t letting God in, I opened up myself to Him so that He could use me and he ended up showing me that He really could. We can’t bask in all the world has to offer because it’s so easy to miss the still small whisper of God. With God in control, He uses us to be great and do awesome things through Him.

Application Questions

1.      What are some things God might be trying to tell you right now in your life?

2.      What are some things in your life that you think can (or already is) keep you from God?