Sunday, February 12, 2006

HEARING GOD'S QUESTIONSBeen exploring hearing God's voice after another recent trip through Dallas Willard's book on the subject. Have you ever noticed how often someone would ask Jesus a question and He would respond with another question?Try this sometime (this is interesting): instead of asking God questions and listening for answers, ask for questions. I have had more success hearing questions than answers when devloping my conversational relationship with God.What kind of questions should you expect? The best ones I have received thus far are personal, so I cannot really give an exact example. The questions are not harsh or judgmental, sort of inquiring as to how I am living life. A few times they are like the questions asked at baptism (in my tradition) "Do you renounce Satan and all his pomps and empty promises?" "Do you realize that you will live forever...isn't that amazing?" Cool questions when they come from the Lord.The fruit has been a fresh method of examining my conscience. More comments to follow as I try it some more.