Communication is without a doubt one of the most challenging tasks of humanity. Wars are started because of miscommunication. Marriages are shattered because of miscommunication. Parents and children stop talking because of miscommunication. Today in the twenty-first century we have so many tools for communicating. We can talk face to face. We can send snail-mail or email. We can Twitter or just plain scream at each other. This day at an institution that shall go unnamed there was a communication problem. The voice mail went down. Thus we were notified that it was not working. We were notified by VOICE MAIL.
Surely God must be frustrated on so many occasions while trying to send us a message. While it is true He could send an angel that’s pretty scary. I’m sure you have noticed in the Bible stories when an angel appears he (she) usually begins with “Fear not.” Hebrews one begins with “in past times God spoke to us via various prophets but in these last days He has spoken to us through His Son.” Nothing ever has surpassed the life and ministry of Jesus for revealing to us the true nature of the Father.
Recently, someone expressed to me that Jesus and another prophet of a very large religion were really the same. Apparently they never noticed that one began his movement with acts of extreme violence while the only time Jesus ever became the least bit violent was when He drove the money changers from the temple because they were abusing the poor.
If we want to hear from God, if we want to hear what He has to say to us, if we want to know how to live our lives, we need to look to Jesus. He is the ultimate communicator of what God wants us to know
Written by Roger Bothwell on March 4, 2011
Spring of Life Ministry, PO Box 124, St. Helena, CA 94574
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