When God is Teaching You Something and You Won't Listen

When God is Teaching You Something and You Won’t Listen

 “Your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, "This is the way, walk in it," whenever you turn to the right hand or whenever you turn to the left.”  (Isaiah 30:21)

We all have learned a lot of lessons in our lifetime.  Do we always listen?  God talks to us all the time even if you think he doesn’t.  Most of the time it is the ‘still small voice’ of God that speaks to us.  All of us at one time or another have heard it. It may say, “Don’t do what you’re planning to do” or, “It’s a sin to do this, or that.” Deep inside an alarm goes off warning you that you are doing wrong.

Isn’t there times when you are talking to someone about a thing that is not to be passed on and inside this voice is telling you to stop what you are saying?  You may be driving and going too fast and a voice tells you to slow down and when you don’t you may hear a siren coming up behind you.

Genesis 6:6 tells the story of a man called Noah.  He listened to God and basically the world was saved by Noah being obedient.  You know the story; Adam and Eve had the opportunity to live in a perfect world, but they failed to listen to God and were cast out of the Garden of Eden and the whole world became sinful except for Noah and his family.  If he hadn’t listened to God, none of us would be here today.

Times have not changed on God trying to teach us a lesson.  Numbers 20:7-11, “Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, "Take the rod; you and your brother Aaron gather the congregation together. Speak to the rock before their eyes, and it will yield its water; thus you shall bring water for them out of the rock, and give drink to the congregation and their animals." So Moses took the rod from before the LORD as He commanded him. So Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock; and he said to them, "Hear now, you rebels! Must we bring water for you out of this rock?" Then Moses lifted his hand and struck the rock twice with his rod; and water came out abundantly, and the congregation and their animals drank.”  God told Moses to speak to the rock and Moses, in his heart said to himself, “I’ll do it my way.”  He did, with terrible consequences; after all those years of leading the people to the Promised Land was not allowed to enter it himself.

As time went on, the world continued to change and still does so.  There are Godly people and those don’t even know who God is.  Some know but choose to ignore him and those who don’t even believe he exists.  There are others who make up their own God. The deal is, every one of us will die someday and then what? Everyone has a spirit, but if it isn’t God’s spirit, they will go to a place called ‘Hell’ for eternity.  You may not believe that, but it doesn’t matter because it’s going to happen. 

There is only two choices for eternal life; Heaven with the Lord, or Hell with Satan.  God doesn’t make the choice of where you are going – you do! When you are dead, you can’t make any choices.  What does this have to do with listening to God? Those of us who live in America have everything to show you how God wants us to live.  There are probably more Bibles in the U.S. than in any part of the world.  Every television, every day has people sharing the Bible and its truth.  There are thousands of libraries in cities and villages and towns where you could read the Bible and Christian books.  In other words, you have no excuse for not knowing the Word of God.

Many times God speaks to you from the Bible and expects you to listen because he loves you. Here is what he wants you to know in Jeremiah 29:11, “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.”  

Just think about it!