Do you ever feel lost? Do you feel like you are groping along in the dark? Do you feel left out, as the only one who does not know? Do you have questions that you never seem to get answers for? Would you like to know what the future holds for you? What if you could have it?
There are times in our lives when we feel lost. We feel as though we are in a fog or sludge or maybe even being kept in the dark. We feel like an outsider, like others know something we don’t. We search for answers and don’t find them. We can’t forecast tomorrow, let alone next week.
But what if we could get the answers we seek and be confident in our future. No, we may not know who we will marry or how many kids we will have or what job we will be working in ten years. What we can know is that we have a God who cares for us. We can know he will always be with us—through the hard times and the good times, until we are no longer on this earth.
How do we get this knowledge? By listening to the Holy Spirit. That may sound simple, and yet it is not. We must train ourselves to listen to him. We must learn to ask the question and be silent. We must discipline ourselves to turn off the television, the computer, and put down our smart phones. It requires us to spend quiet time with God to hear the Holy Spirit speak to us.
How do I know? I have been there, done that. I have experienced it work over and over. Spending quiet time does not mean sitting in a dark corner. It can be the time you spend mowing your yard. It can be your exercise time. It can be your drive work, if you turn off the radio. It can also be sitting quietly on your couch or in a chair with no distractions. It is in this quiet time that your answers will come through the Holy Spirit.
I pray we all seek answers to our questions. I pray we strive to hear the Holy Spirit speak to us. I pray each one of us will spend quiet time asking our questions and listening for the Holy Spirit to answer us. Ask your questions. Be quiet and listen. Trust God to send the answers through the Holy Spirit.
John 16:13 “When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own but will speak whatever he hears, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.”
Marty Pressey 