Opus 2025-167: Common Ground

As I was meditating on my porch and admiring the way in which God had covered the whole canopy of the sky with gray clouds, the thought came to me about how wonderful it is to be able to meet with God, and to have thoughts that appear to me to be deep, but might cause him to chuckle a little bit.  It is good fellowship to be with the Lord.

My thoughts went to the understanding that this is not you original with me.  Be honest.  We don’t see in the prophets a lot of discussion about sitting on the front porch and meditating on the things of God.  The prophets seem to be too busy thundering the call to repentance and the fact that God is not happy with Israel.  But I don’t think that’s the only time God spoke to them.  I think that the prophets were in regular communication.  That’s one of the ways that they learn to recognize the voice of God.  They heard, and sometimes they repeat it.  I believe that often they heard and we don’t know about it because it was just fellowship, not a message.

There is so much that God communicated personally.  But there’s also much that God communicats to us through the scripture.  What sustained Elijah and Elisha?  What kept Moses going?  How did Paul stay positive and uplifted?  I think it was mainly all those great insights that God gave them that He didn’t allow them to share.

I believe John said something to this effect,

(Joh 21:25 KJV)  And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen.

I think we can make this true in our own lives.  God speaks to us, sometimes through the inspiration of scripture, sometimes through that still small voice, sometimes through watching our grandchildren, but God does speak to us.  Make sure you listen to find out what great insight He has for you today that you are not supposed to share.

God loves you enough to give you your own inspirational thoughts in private.  Rejoice.

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Opus 2024-165: Unrecorded Conversations

Don’t you wish the NSA was around at the beginning of history.  I find myself wondering what kind of things God had to say to Adam and Eve.  We have one short record of their conversations, but the familiarity with which God spoke to them tells me that this is not the only time that he talked with him.  What did they talk about?  If only Siri or Alexa could tell us.

What about Abraham and the other patriarchs?  What about Moses?  What did God have to say to the prophets that did not get recorded?  I would imagine that God spoke to a lot of people at different times and no one bothered to write it down.  Did the farmer in Judah ask God to explain how to get better quality honey?  Did his daughter ask it the boy next door liked her?

Or take unrecorded events.

Paul’s shipwrecks are not written down.  The one we have recorded took place after this.

(2Co 11:25 KJV)  Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep;

We do not know about the other two.  We know that he also wrote at least one more letter to the Corinthians.  I would expect that he wrote letters to other churches too, but we have no record.  

I would imagine that Satan visited God and more times than are recorded in the book of Job.  He must have had some interesting reports about what he saw.  I guess God figured we would have enough trouble deciphering the book of Job so He didn’t give us any of the others.

Then take the last verse in the Gospel of John,

(Joh 21:25 KJV)  And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen.

Now that would make some interesting reading.

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