Today's Daily Bread
The Lure Of A Message
You’re sitting in a darkened theater enjoying a concert, a play, or
a film, when suddenly a smartphone screen lights up as a person reads
an incoming text and perhaps takes time to reply. In his book The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains,
Nicholas Carr says that in our connected world, “The sense that there
might be a message out there for us” is increasingly difficult to
resist.
Samuel was a young boy when he heard a voice call his name and
thought it was Eli the priest in the tabernacle where he served the Lord
(1 Sam. 3:1-7). When Eli realized that God was calling Samuel, he told
the boy how to respond. When God called his name a fourth time, “Samuel
answered, ‘Speak, for Your servant hears’” (v.10). This attentiveness to
God’s voice became the pattern of Samuel’s life as “the Lord revealed Himself to Samuel in Shiloh by the word of the Lord” (v.21).
Are we listening for God’s voice in our lives today? Are we more
drawn by the vibration of a smartphone than the still, small voice of
the Lord through His Word and His Spirit?
May we, like Samuel, learn to discern God’s voice and say, “Speak, Lord. I’m listening.”
May we listen, Lord, to You
As You speak to us today
Through Your Spirit and Your Word—
Help us follow and obey. —Sper
As You speak to us today
Through Your Spirit and Your Word—
Help us follow and obey. —Sper
Don’t let the noise of the world
keep you from hearing the voice of the Lord.
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