I usually listen to K-Love or NPR while I’m in the shower; this morning it was K-Love. It’s a great time to think and pray, and as I heard a commercial, I began to think about the words.
Toby Mac was saying, “I write choruses all the time. But I only stop and write verses when I feel God leading me strongly.”
Those of you who know me well, know that I pay attention to the choice of words people use. And I often use a word with the opposite meaning in order to better understand what the person is saying. Thus the opposite of “God leading me strongly” would be “God leading me weakly.”
Can God lead in degrees; on a scale from weak to strong?
How often does the Bible describe God as strong? How often does the Bible describe man as weak? How often does God tell us to BE strong? But never is God described as weak.
So I must ask: Can God lead in any way other than strongly? It’s a rhetorical question that begs the answer “No!”
If God then can only lead from a position of His personal nature, which includes strength, the concept of the degree of strength felt by the individual cannot be assign to Him, but rather to the individual.
What am I trying to say? When we are weak in faith, when our relationship with God is weak, when we are weak from following the desires of the flesh (old nature), it can only result in us not be able to discern the leading of God.
God is always leading. Because He is always strong, His leading is always strong. Our ability to sense His leading is the variable.
If I do not “feel God leading me strongly,” that problem is not that God is silent. The problem is that I am not in tune with His leading.
This reminds me of a saying I’ve seen on many a church sign: “If God seems far away, guess who moved.”
If we are not sensing the leading of God, we need to evaluate our condition and correct our course.
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He leadeth me, O bless'd thought!
O words with heavenly comfort fraught!
Whate'er I do, where'er I be
Still 'tis God's hand that leadeth me.
He leadeth me, He leadeth me,
By His own hand He leadeth me;
His faithful follower I would be,
For by His hand He leadeth me.
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My First Blog
I've been thinking about starting a blog for several weeks. Finally got around to setting up an account. Let's see how this works!
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