The more I listen for God's voice the more I realize God is a nudger. My friend Kathy says she felt the nudge to not let her daughter's fever go. Her daughter is now being treated for leukemia and I know it was because she didn't let it go. She felt the nudge of God to take Gabbie in to the doctor instead of just giving her more tylenol!
In most call stories that I hear from friends and others in seminary it is always a nudge. Great things start as a nudge from God.
Why then do I expect something big? We have a big God. A God that works miracles, heals many, and loves unconditionally. We also have a God that says listen...you will hear My voice. It's in the nudge. It's in the quiet prayer for this person. Do this, help this person, care for this one! I need to listen more for the nudge and less for the big booming voice I imagine. God is speaking, in the nudge. God will not pull or push. We find God in the gentle nudge on our back or the light to follow ahead of us! I need to remember to feel the nudge.
I love your post! I think some similar thoughts, but never actually get them to my neglected blog! I do however appreciate reading yours! This summer listening to "the nudge" has been a goal of mine. As I was beginning to notice doing things against it didn't go well usually. When I started to listen my eyes opened a smidge to just how often we are nudged, and how great things happen when we do!
ReplyDeleteDealing with Gabbie's diagnosis has been something hard to even explain. But one blessing is all the things I had done around here that has made things a little easier that I did because of listening to the nudge. Like having the older kids already for school and going through the kids clothes for fall. I've never in my LIFE done that in August, but this year for some reason I felt, well, nudged! So, on some super hot day when we were in the house, I had them trying on jeans and such! LOL. Listening to "the nudge" its a very good thing!