I have to share this with you. Yesterday I wrote “God Language” in my blog. It is regarding God speaking to us and sometimes he seems to be silent and we can’t hear him and we can’t see him.
Last night I went to our leaders meeting for the new ladies, Bible study, Seamless, we will be doing, beginning on September 25 at Journey Church in Lake Worth, FL.
At the meeting one of our Pastor’s spoke ( Pastor Shane) his title was ‘Having A Listening Ear’ it was amazing because I had no idea that He would be speaking on that subject and it went right along with what God had given me that morning. But wait it gets even more amazing…
He proceeded to tell us about a movie he had seen years ago called, Ray. The Ray Charles story, then he played a small part of the film for us.
(Ray Charles was born in Georgia and moved to Florida as a child. At the age of 5 he began losing his sight gradually, and by age 7 is completely blind. Florida, he studied at St. Augustine deaf and blind, where he first learned to play the piano. He then moved to Seattle, where he began to be published as a musician.)
As I watched I immediately knew what was happening…it seemed cruel that his mama saw him fall and wouldn’t help him…that he cried out for her help but she just stood and watched her son beg for her… “Mama, help!” “Mama I need you!”
I was struck with such awareness, that this had been me, that very morning…crying out to my Papa God… “God where are you, I need you, I can’t hear you.” But like Ray’s mama, he was standing there, watching me knowing I had to learn on my own to hear Him in a different way.
God always hears us…and like Pastor Shane said, “Never mistake God’s silence as being absent.”
God wants us to grow and thrive and hear and to really listen to what’s around us so that we can be alert and aware of the dangers the enemy throws at us, to see the beauty of his creation, like hearing a cricket, and to be able to reach out to others who are hurting.
All I can say is that our Papa God never ever leaves us, and when we learn the lesson He is right there to give us a great BIG HUG! He hugged me by allowing me to see this message last night. I could hardly sit in my seat…tears rolled down my face because I knew God was showing me how to listen in a new way. He used a movie clip of a little blind boy who learned to see and hear and feel in a new a different way.
God’s language is all around us…and he is always watching and always in the room with us…but we have to be still, stop crying and be willing to LISTEN!
~Marla Shaw O’Neill September 12, 2018
Another great piece to read .
Thank you. God is good! <3 🙂