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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I wonder if, in many cases, the source of confusion doesn't lie in semantics. Using an adverb like "strongly" can lead to miscommunication even if the meaning intended by the speaker is accurate. It's possible that, to continue with the example provided, when Toby Mac spoke of God leading him "strongly" he actually meant that the Lord was speaking to him in a way that was unmistakable despite Toby's relative ability to "tune in."
I believe that there are times when the Lords speaks to us more softly and that if we are not keeping an ear out we could miss it. Obviously, these times could not be described a weak. The Lord's voice always carries the strength and power of his authority. But in order to teach us to vigilantly and attentively listen for his voice, doesn't he at times speak to us in less obvious ways?
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