Hard Word

Oftentimes we seek God to hear what we want to hear.

We may be in pain and we seek His word to soothe.

We may be in a dilemma and we seek signs to decide one way or another.

We may be anxious about tomorrow and we seek His will.

But sometimes God is silent in all these. Instead He wants you to hear Him, hear what He actually wants to say.

And that is hard.

For you have to turn away from those things that are pressing, urgent and anxious, in your life, in your mind and in your heart, and to abandon them to Him, that somehow they will be taken care of.

And instead you are to put your mind on things strange, unfamiliar and apparently irrelevant.

But then that is God's word.