Reposting - While Eating a Tuna Sandwichat the Beach

"You cannot know Me until you have stopped telling yourself that you already know Me. You cannot hear Me until you stop thinking that you've already heard Me. I cannot tell you My truth until you stop telling Me yours!"

All people are special and all moments are golden. There is no person and there is no time one more special than another. Many people choose to believe that God communicates in special ways and only with special people. This removes the mass of the people from the responsibility of hearing His message, much less receiving it, and allows them to take someone Else's word for everything. You don't have to listen to Him, especially if you have already decided that others have heard from Him on every subject and you have them (friends, clergy, attorney's, other Christians) to listen to. By listening to what other people think they have heard Him say, you don't have to think at all. But when He stops communicating with us, it will be because we have chosen not to follow His Word.

This is the biggest reason for most people turning from His messages on a personal level. If you acknowledge that you are receiving His messages directly, then you are responsible for interpreting them in light of His Word. It is "safer" and much easier to accept the interpretation of others than to interpret the message you may very well be receiving in this moment now.

Go ahead and act on all that you know, or have been told. But know that you have all been doing this since time began. And what shape is the world in? Clearly you have missed something. Obviously, there is something you don't understand. That which you think you understand must seem right to you because right is a term you use to designate something with which you agree.

But some are willing to actually listen to Him. They are willing to hear, willing to remain open to His communication, and willing to act on it even when it seems scary, crazy, or downright wrong. Especially when it seems wrong. If we think we are right about everything, then who needs to talk with Him?