1 SAMUEL 3:1-10
We were sitting in the gloomy conference room as we focused on the projector, silently pondering how to respond to the issue at hand, when suddenly a smartphone screen lit up as someone read an incoming text message and took time to respond. Almost immediately, both myself and the person sitting next to me checked our phones for unread text messages. In our interconnected world, it is becoming increasingly difficult to resist the feeling that there might be a message for us.
Samuel was a child when he heard a voice call his name and thought it was Eli in the tabernacle where he served the Lord. When Eli realised that God was calling him, he told the boy how to respond. This attention to God’s voice became the pattern for Samuel’s life as the Lord revealed Himself to Samuel in Shiloh through the word of the Lord (1 Samuel 3:21).
Are we hearing the voice of God in our lives today? Are we more drawn to the vibration of a smartphone than to the still small voice of the Lord through His Word and His Spirit?
Like Samuel, may we learn to recognise the voice of God and to say, “Speak, Lord, I am listening.”
🙏🏼 Lord Jesus, as You speak to us today through Your Spirit and Your Word, help us follow and obey.
