God Does Talk to Me

“If you need wisdom, ask our generous God, and he will give it to you.”

James 1:5a (NLT)

When I read that the other day, I wondered when God was going to give me some wisdom. ‘Cause I’ve asked and asked and never thought I ever got anything back.

Then I got to thinking about how the Ministers and Fathers from churches and the Rabbis from synagogues keep saying about how God talks to them. Maybe that’s how they got wisdom. God never talked to me and if He did, how would I ever know about it?

That’s really been bugging me since then. Maybe God has talked to me and I didn’t recognize it as such and ignored it!! That would be absolutely horrible!

I got to thinking about how I would recognize if God were talking to me. Maybe it’s not is some great revelation and a light doesn’t shine down me or a deep voice doesn’t come down from Heaven like in the movies. Seriously, that’s what I thought it might be like. But if God talked to all those Ministers, Fathers and Rabbis’ somebody else in their private sanctuary would also hear it, and I didn’t think that was happening. So it really had to be something pretty private.

Now I’ve had some pretty good thoughts about what I was going to do, lately and I wondered if that was God talking to me. What were the circumstances surrounding when I got those thoughts? Well, from what I remembered, it was during or right after I was praying for some guidance about something. That’s it!

If I’m right, and in my mind I am, God’s been talking to me right along and I never ever even thought about it that way!!

Proof? He’s been bugging me to write this for two days now I think, to share this with someone, in the hopes I might help someone else recognize my truth.

I hoped He didn’t think it was a sin that I’ve been ignoring Him, even in my ignorance, because I really didn’t know what I wasn’t doing. But then I found that God talks in many ways, because almost immediately afterward, I read:

“If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” 1 John 1:9 (NASB)

And:

“Your word I have treasured in my heart…”

Psalm 119:11a (NAS)

Wow!

Any doubts!?  I sure don’t have any. You decide for yourself

George