4 You know what I am going to say even before I say it, Lord. 5 You go before me and follow me. You place your hand of blessing on my head. 6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,too great for me to understand! Psalms 139:3-6
You ever think God is too busy to be concerned about the little things? I mean like what you choose to wear, or how you fix your hair, or whether you play hard, win, or lose? I was reminded this past weekend of the importance of listening to the Holy Spirit, even regarding what may seem somewhat trivial to me. Now what I'm referring to is not where I forgot to pray for someone, or forgot a meeting with someone, or forgot my message, or forgot to take up an offering. Nope.....not remotely that important...but apparently it was important that the Holy Spirit amidst all the more significantly important things clearly advised me on. See what happen was I had prepared a meal for a family, and had packed everything up, temperature checked it all, and was ready to roll. I just had to grab a few extra aluminum pans before hitting the road. I had grabbed a couple of full pans, lids, and one half pan, and a lid. As I am closing the hatch to my truck I heard the still small voice say, you need to grab a few extra half pans. I hopped in my truck and again, I heard you really need to grab a few extra half pans. I turn the radio up with my gospel and head to my last stop before hitting the road to pick up some food. No sooner than I am gathering the last pans of food, packing it all, I'm short a half pan. I really really need a half pan to transport this last little bit. It was at that moment I remembered the still small voice advising me....and I felt totally stupid. Here I am a pastor, encouraging people to listen to the Holy Spirit, and I so thought.....this was insignificant, until I needed, didn't have, and then had to stop off the path to go and purchase something I had in abundance at home, only had I listened.
Now the cost to purchase what I needed was $.99, but it wasn't about that.....I was reminded that GOD cares about even the little things concerning us, and He is always looking out for our good......if we would just listen, we would learn. If we learn, we would grow. So we all just need to listen.
God bless you all, and I pray you actually heavily consider listening to the Holy Spirit and not just listen, but actually follow what He's advising you to do so you may actually be able to REACH someone He's trying to REACH. LGLP
