Oswald Chambers continues to speak loudly to me and has for years. I leave with you his comments on the following verse:
"And they said unto Moses, speak thou with us and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die." Exodus 20:19
...Speak thou with us...But let not God speak.... We show how little we love God by preferring to listen to His servnts only. We like to listen to personal testimonies, but we do not desire that God Himself should speak to us. Why are we so terrified lest God should speak...? Because we know that if God does speak, either the thing must be done or we must tell God we will not obey Him. If it is only the servant's voice we hear, we feel it is not imperative, we can say, "Well, that is simply your own idea, though I don't deny it is probably God's truth."
Am I putting God in the humiliating position of having treated me as a child of His while all the time I have been ignoring Him? When I do hear Him, the humiliation I have put on Him comes back on me - "Lord, why was I so dull and so obstinate?" This is always the result when once we do hear God. The real delight of hearing Him is tempered with shame in having been so long in hearing Him.
Must I listen? Yes, if we are to acknowledge Him, fear and revere Him and give Him His rightful place in us...always making Him our first choice...our first source...speaking rather as Samuel of the Old Testament did: "Speak Lord, for thy servant heareth." (1 Samuel 3:10)
Graced...Joyous,
Mitch
