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The topic of not being able to hear God came up yesterday, and after some pondering I came up with this:

We are born to a set of parents that hopefully will love us and raise us to adulthood, then encourage us to leave the nest.  Through our growing years, our parents guide us and encourage us and hopefully give us a sound set of morals to live by.   Eventually our parents pass away and we are left to manage without them.  At least that was how it was for me.  You wonder how you will go on without them, often times wishing you could ask them about the latest thing your mind is hung up on, or just to find comfort in having them hear your latest sad news or their see their joy in your latest blessing.  You long for their words of encouragement or guidance and smile when you remember the time when you didn’t want  it.

If you were blessed by the kind of parents I was blessed with, if you think about it for just a minute, you will hear what they have to say.  You will know what they would tell you and you would know the joy they share with you.  You just know it, because you know them.

My Christian journey started about 10 years ago, and my taking it rather seriously started about 5 years ago.  Those first 4 or 5 years I was just checking the box on my to do list.  I seriously began Bible study with a special group of people at the church I belong to and have come to realize that the more I study, the more I read His word, the more I know Him and what He wants of me.  Just like the longer I lived with my parents, the more I learned what they wanted and expected of me.

I’m happy to say that I have reached a point in my studies where whatever hurdle, fire, sorrow, happiness, question or concern that is put in front of me, if I pray about it and think about it and quietly listen, I know what He would say.  I know because I have read and studied and listened and researched enough to better know Him.  I may not always like what I hear, but I can better accept what I hear now, because I’m still His child and I know His will is what will be done.  The sooner we can accept that, the better off we will be.

I’m not done in my journey, I have a long road to travel,  I’m unfinished.  I’m a work in progress.   I will continue to study, listen, research, and pray.  I will continue to doubt, wonder, and question.  I will continue to let Him down …… but I’m sure He will forgive and stay with me no matter what.  I know that because I know Him.

So when you pray and you think He doesn’t answer you, perhaps it’s because you’re not listening, or you need to get to know Him better so you will hear what He would say.