"Your ears will hear a voice behind you saying, 'This is the way, walk in it" (Isa 30.21). You know that would be totally awesome to hear God say, "Mike, turn here, don't go there, leave that person alone, seek her out, live right here." And yet, more often than not, there's silence.
Some Christians say, "God told me to talk to so and so about Him," but for me there is seldom a giant arrow over a person's head saying "Evangelize me!" Instead, I must be rejected by ten in order to find one willing. Sometimes God seems to tell people where to live or what car to buy but the rest of us have to use wisdom to make prayerful and sensible decisions as stewards of what He's given us. Sometimes God tells people where to go to Church, what job is best suited for them, what stock to invest their money in, or any number of important life events that are the cause for most of our worry. Yet, most of us have to learn to trust in our decisions when no voice guarantees our voice.
You see, the Israelites who heard God say, "This is the way" had a problem. God told them that "because [they] despise this word and trust in oppression and perverseness" (Is 30.12) they would be destroyed along with those who do not know God. Christians want to hear God's voice but they don't want to read His Word. We want to see His hands working miracles but we don't to be His hands serving people. We want Him to tell us the way in which to walk, but we don't always want to walk in it. May I learn to trust His Word that I might hear His voice and obey His commands that I might see His hands at work in this world.
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