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still small voice...how is 'that' God?

God is love 1 John 4:8

The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfullness, gentleness & self control. Galatians 5:22

Anytime we experience one of the above attributes we are experiencing God or 'hearing' God...albeit in a different way.

Think about the last time you experienced one of those 'feelings' or 'emotions'. Didn't it eminate from inside you...your heart...where Jesus lives? Now the feeling or emotion is prompted by some person, situation (a movie or singing songs) or circumstance...BUT...the feeling or emotion came from your heart...from God...as a means of speaking to you (i.e. your feeling God or one aspect of Him).

Now how cool is that! Everytime we experience true (as opposed to humanistic and/or conditional) love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfullness, gentleness & self control...we have experienced or communed with God. How could it be otherwise? Jesus did say 'why do you call me good, there is no one good but God'...so if it's good, it's got to be God...sounds like a tag line for a commercial to me ;)

So, as we go through a typical day we can identify God speaking to us over and over again...through his character traits that 'are' the fruit of the Spirit.

Good bye 'still small voice' and Hello 'dynamic overflowing emotion'! If you run into someone who struggling with 'hearing from God' let em' in on listening a different way :)

posted by Rick @ 3:14 PM