Hear HIM right

Acts 22:10 “‘What shall I do, Lord?’ I asked.

“ ‘Get up,’ the Lord said, ‘and go into Damascus. There you will be told all that you have been assigned to do.’

A number of years ago Norman Cousins wrote an editorial in Saturday Review in which he reported a conversation he had on a trip in India. He was talking with a Hindu priest named Satis Prasad. The man said he wanted to come to our country to work as a missionary among the Americans. Cousins assumed that he meant that he wanted to convert Americans to the Hindu religion, but when asked, Satis Prasad said, "Oh no, I would like to convert them to the Christian religion. Christianity cannot survive in the abstract. It needs no membership, but believers. The people of your country may claim they believe in Christianity, but from what I read at this distance, Christianity is more a custom than anything else. I would ask that either you accept the teachings of Jesus in your everyday life and in your affairs as a nation, or stop invoking His name as sanction for everything you do. I want to help save Christianity for the Christian."

In our walk with the Lord, we tend to become complacent as years go by. Unless we get a jolt or a major need, we tend to go with the flow and just be involved in the routine or even stay away from that. It basically happens when after a while of walking with the Lord, we tend to take on from there and go our way, thinking it to be just as the Lord’s direction.

When Apostle Paul heard the Lord’s call for the first time, the direction was clear, you will be told  what you have to do. That became the guiding force for Paul’s life and ministry. To depend on the Lord completely and daily. Trusting HIM for anything and everything. You and I need to hear God’s voice clearly for everything we do. Hear HIM right.

Stanley Thomas Isac

Stanley is serving as the Pastor of Crossway Church in New Delhi, he can be reached at Stanleytisac@gmail.com