HEAR HIS VOICE

By Rick Mathes

John 10:27 “My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me;

There is a logical progression of thought that I have advocated all the years I have been a minister of the Word. This is how it must work:

• Hear
• Listen
• Learn
• Apply
• Evaluate

It is all the more important if the calling to knowledge is from the Logos personally. Our discernment of the direction or target is very crucial to our correct procedure of response listed above.

The obvious first call is to salvation for God so loved the world He didn’t send a committee! He sent His very own Son. I am so proud of Jesus! WE have only a smoldering destination full of soot, smoke and unbearable flames and searing heat without Him.

There isn’t any choice but to be separated and consecrated to Him. Now that was a lot to consider! I have always felt as far back as I can remember that I just didn’t fit with the people and even family around me. I have always been uncomfortable with non-believers but like them I have had a real hard and relentlessly persuing holiness. Do you want to be holy more that you want to sin?

It’s a matter of self-denial which drives the leaders of the, “name it-claim it” faith movement. We must be lesser so that He might be greater. The more we let go of the world the tighter out grip on His free gifts must be. The Word teaches to let go of the world. There has never been a UHall trailer attached to the rear-end of a hearse. Now I will lament out loud that there aren’t many of us Christians as door-mats. I am however an anvil that has been the cause of many broken hammers.

The consetration of oujr efforts is to hear His voice and respond with all that is within us. No holding back. We must know His voice and be so intent on it htat we can distinctly hear it in a crowd of demonsl. The way to sharpen that issue is to be in humble service to Him and so close and familiar with Him His voice is unmistakenly His.