Contemplative Bible Reading

Isaiah 30:21 (New Living Translation)

Your own ears will hear him.
Right behind you a voice will say,
“This is the way you should go,”
whether to the right or to the left.

God is speaking to the people through the prophet Isaiah. God will teach the people when they will listen. God, with God’s perspective and understanding, will tell them to go to the right or to the left.

Imagine that. God—all seeing and all knowing—will tell me which way to go, what to do, what to say (what NOT to say), and on and on. What a blessing. All I have to do is … forget myself and listen to God.

Uh, er, well, that last part, uh, er, I don’t know about that one. You see, I’m here and I know what is happening here, and God is ancient and maybe a little behind the times, and God isn’t on TikTok or whatever is new this weekend and I, uh, er, well, you know.

Nope. Wrong. Wrong again.

I believe God talks to me. There are many ways God talks to me. Sometimes by reading the Bible, sometimes in prayer, and sometimes through a guy sitting on a sidewalk trying to stay warm in the winter. God tells me the way I should go. Am I listening? Am I following the directions? Am I ignoring one of the greatest gifts given to mankind? Please God, help me to listen and obey.