Day 04 #DailyDevotionals
A few weeks ago, I was listening to a CD that recorded a certain Christian humanity class in 2009 that belongs to one of our churches’ school. The lecturer, talked about how God wants each of us to have this focus on our life, to walk according God’s purpose and that we have to see through His eyes to know what He wants. “Dream big, expect something in your life. Get something you’re able to do it with God,” she said. Even we’re tired, it’s all the effort we’ve made by focusing on our life a purpose that God has given us.
According to her lecture, less than 3% of students in Yale know their life’s purpose and ends up achieving great things because they know what they’re going to do with it. The rest 97% of the graduates lived aimlessly without any special purpose to live for. She concluded that this could happen to us too when we don’t have fear of the Lord. The ‘fear’ that she was talking about didn’t mean as in scare, but our respect and honor for God because of His love towards us. When we don’t have this fear of the Lord and ignores it, we’ll be bored with life and become a useless individual as it is said in Proverbs 1:7 “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction…” If we don’t love God, we can’t see what He sees. We have to focus on our life and aligns it according to God’s will.
From this point, I wondered, how do I know what God wants in my life if I couldn’t even listen to His voice? I realize that the concept of heeding to His voice is just the same like how a phone reached its maximum usage when there’s Wifi. A gadget becomes something useless once there is no connection to the internet. Our life is something dead when we do not have this connectivity to its Maker. God is the Author of our life and we are the actors. When something ugly happens, we act. That’s where we have the courage to step out in order to fulfill His purpose. How? The answer is through the Holy Spirit. “But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you,” says John 14:26.
Some of you may think of something like "Geez… What’s this Holy Spirit thing?“ or "Why does this starting to sound weird?” If I can explain it in a simple way, I’d like to say that the Holy Spirit is some kind of 'mini-Jesus’ God has put in each of our hearts (I always put it this way each time my life group members and I talked about the Holy Spirit). This mini-Jesus, or the Holy Spirit, keeps us in touch with The Unlimited Wifi, who is Jesus alone.
We cannot hear God’s voice if we do not have a close relationship with God. Maybe we already have the Holy Spirit inside us, but it is switched off and its signal cannot reach The Ultimate, Heavenly Wifi. I was often too busy with my assignments and daily routines, so unconsciously I didn’t allow God to have access to my thoughts or speak to me. It often happens.
Once, I couldn’t sleep in the middle of the night. So I asked Him, 'God, what do you want to tell me?’I tried to listen over and over again, but I didn’t hear a thing (FYI, God’s voice is inaudible because He knows that you’ll immediately freaks out if it is). I was totally frustrated. I started to worry about my life’s problems that I’ll face later on. Then, suddenly out of nowhere, a small, familiar voice spoke to me from my heart. 'I will take care of it,’ it said. I was really startled because I wasn’t thinking about that sentence at all. But it just literally popped out and spoke to me. Wow. That must be Him, I thought. I felt so relieved and fell asleep right away.
My experience above was one of the moments where I allowed God to have access through the Holy Spirit. In the beginning of that experience, I had difficulty hearing Him because sometimes I wasn’t totally committed to have a personal time with Him. Sometimes I tried to spend one of the best 15 minutes in my life before going to bed, but it turned out that my gadgets were the greatest distractions. Usually I would end up scrolling through my Instagram feed or checking my Facebook timeline. It is just the same like when you spend quality time with your friend, but you’re too busy staring at the phone’s screen and forget that he exists right in front of your table. That’s how it works. Can you hear what He wants to say? No. Do you even talk with Him? No. Do you blame things on Him? Yes, because You don’t know what is His purpose in placing you in that kind of life’s situation (“But My people would not heed My voice… So I give them over to their own stubborn heart, to walk in their own counsels.” - Psalm 81:11-12).
Without the sensitivity toward God’s voice, we are clueless to His will in our lives. That’s why it is very important to see what He sees and become those who achieve something big like those 3% of the Yale graduates. Don’t be one of those 97% students. Take the challenge and live life to its fullest. Fulfill God’s purpose and make Him as your only source of ultimate, unlimited and heavenly Wifi.
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