Saturday, March 22, 2003
Saturday, March 22, 2003
Little children, let us love, not in word or speech, but in truth and action.
But there is one more significant question that must be asked. ARE WE WILLING TO ACT
WHEN GOD DOES SPEAK? Isn't this the real problem in our lives? It is not that we don't know
God's will--it is that we are unwilling to act on the part of God's will that we do know. There are
many things in my life I believe to be God's will for me. Finding the power to act on what I already
know to be from God is my biggest obstacle.
(1
John 3.18 NRSV)
Marshall McLuhan once made the observation that nature has not equipped us with earlids. We
can close our eyes, but not our ears. Yet, says McLuhan, we compensate for nature's oversight
by developing selective listening. We listen to what we want to hear. And I dare say, some of us
are not listening to God. How does God speak to us? Do we limit ourselves by our lack of faith?
Do we limit ourselves by our failure to listen?
Dear God, as I listen to your will, guide me to action. Amen.
