There once was a fragile soul that was seeking the truth with all of the soul's tender heart. The soul felt that it had heard the Heart of God in the words of scripture. The soul sensed that God was speaking healing into its life; but then a well meaning "older and wiser" more studious Saint enlightened the searching soul to the fact that it was presumptuous of one to assume that God would personally speak to us ...affirming "that the scripture is not any personal interpretation." This strong inference that God would not personally care for "one" caused the tenderhearted soul to fade into the darkness in great sorrow.
O the shame of those embittered by the winds of adversity and doubt to infuse their root of bitterness into the life of a tender hearted seeker.
"For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our LORD Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of His majesty." Quote by the former fisherman Peter (2 Peter 1:16)
Itching ears, curious minds ... Hungering to be the first to a new truth, have unknowingly taken the lead in creating disaster for those less diligent to search and those bent to believe a lie. Their never ending, dead-end search has been for the secret darkened pathways that have been cunningly devised by other bereaved by disappointment ... who in every generation have moved off of the eternally laid and solidly sure "highway" that leads to the vanishing point. (There is a way that seems right unto a man but the end thereof is the ways of death.) This Most Sure Highway (that these curiosity seekers have stepped aside from or avoided altogether) was not devised by cunningly sculpted fables that do nothing but cause the curious to err from the Words of Eternity, but this Most Sure Highway has been brightly lit with the blood of The Savior, the power of His Spirit, and the truth of the eternal Word of God.
Within the dawn's early light of the Garden - a diversion was already being slithered out to purposely lay the pathway of doubt for all who would question the creator and distort the purpose of His creation. "God hath not said?" - would find its way into the hearts of fallen men; and many would be enticed by the mystery of the fragments of the sparkling serpentine scales left in the wake of this original "turn away".
"We have also a more sure word of prophesy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn and the day star arise in your hearts: Knowing this first, that no prophesy of scripture is of any private interpretation. For the prophesy in old time came not by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost." 2 Peter 1:19-21
Oh "older and wiser" more seasoned veteran of doubt --- here is what scripture really says to the Tender Heart -- "Have great confidence and consolation, knowing that scripture was not a private earthly human venture in its loosing on the hearts of man kind; It was not willed nor guarded by faulty human intellect in its revelation...BUT distinctly different Men "set apart" in their desire for God, Spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. They were used to be the voice of God to the heart man.
Honor God, give Him the glory by allowing all of your heart, all of your mind, all of your spirit, and all of your strength to Love Him and acknowledge Him in His extravagant love for you.
Happy Father's day to those Fathers how daily seek God and Know Him,
HLFA,
Jeff
YES - God does personally speak LOVE to His kids ... Be still and listen!