The blog below was inspired by this episode of “What’s God Doing”
Is that what God said?
What a good question. How many times do we ask that question or similar ones? How many times, when following what God said, are we asked that by others? How is our confidence when it comes to listening God?
It takes me back to Genesis 3:1-5:
Now the serpent was more cunning than any beat of the field which the lord had made. ad he said to the women, “has God indeed said, you shall not eat of every tree in the garden”?” And the women said to the serpent, “we may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden; but of the fruit of the tree which is in the mist of the garden, god said, ‘you shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die.'” then the serpent said to the women, ‘you will not surely die. for God knows that in the day you eat it your eyes will be opened, and it you will be like God, Koning good and evil.” So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate it.
Did she know what God had said? Why was she so quickly swayed? Have you had moments like this when you questioned what God said?
And the Lord commanded the man saying “of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat it you shall surely die.”
Genesis 2:16-17
This is why it is so important to know what He said; to know His words through scripture, to memorize them, to test everything with what the Word says… so we are not swayed.
I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you. (Psalm 119:11)
But with the temptation He will also provide the way of escape. (1 Corinthians 10:13)
The more we know Him the less we will want to hurt him, and temptations will have less power and sway over us. When we make mistakes we need to repent, but ultimately He just wants our hearts to be in unity with His.
How well do you know the voice of the Lord? How easily confused or swayed are you? I challenge you to ask God about how you are doing in this and how you can get better; seek to know the truth of His Scripture, so you will know the truth and it will set you free.
