Dear Young Christian:
“And the Lord called Samuel” (1 Samuel 3:4).
Everyone seems to be carrying them today! Cell phones, smartphones, etc. You are in a dark room and suddenly a screen lights up as someone reads an incoming text and perhaps takes time to reply. Statistics show that 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. When Eli finally realized that God was calling, he told him how to respond. When God called the fourth time Samuel answered, “Speak; for thy servant heareth” (1 Samuel 3:10). This attentiveness to the voice of God became the pattern of Samuel’s life, and as a result he was used in a mighty way for the blessing of God’s people.
Will you listen to the voice of God as He speaks to you this week, through His Living Word by His Spirit, or are you more drawn to the vibration or beep of a smartphone?
Your Christian Friend,
Jim Hyland
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