Why do we look for Jesus in a slice of toast and not look for a word from the Living God?
"In those days the word of the Lord was rare, there were not many visions." 1 Sam. 3:1"Now Samuel did not yet know the Lord: The word of the Lord had not yet been revealed to him." 1 Sam. 3:7
Why the lack of word from God? Is it God or the age? I ask the same question today. I personally don't think God has stopped doing miracles or speaking openly or filling our dreams with visions because of God or some limitation He has placed on Himself. God can do whatever He wants whenever He wants. Perhaps He chooses not to do it when we're so much into self and so little into Him. Like Eli's sons. It's no accident that the ark of the Lord will be captured and leave Israel.
Apparently Eli isn't doing his job. The Lord isn't appearing to the people or to him. And he isn't revealing the Lord to people...not even to Samuel the child given to serve God. How is it that Samuel doesn't know the Lord yet? And what did it say to Eli that He chose to appear to a child in his keeping, a child that had no knowledge, no experience, no education about the Lord? What a slam. The Lord appears to a servant child and not the High Priest.
Who is God raising up today? Who is He speaking too? Those of us whoever spent a lifetime in the church and know him but have done so little with that knowledge? Or has He chosen to speak to those who don't know Him? A child? The people of a third world country who truly believe in God's power to work and take an active role in our lives? I wonder. Our we a country where it could be written in the chapters of the Bible our lives write today that..."In those days the word of the lord was rare; there were not many visions."
Lord knows.
My post last year on this date.
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