Has God Called You on the Telephone?

Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread,"

Has God ever called you on the telephone? You hear the phone ringing, you say Hello, and a voice says, "This is God calling!" No? Well, I have never heard His voice, either. Some people say they have, but I have not, and sometimes I doubt that they have.

But that doesn't mean that God is not speaking to us. Think about Jesus. He was the divine Son of God; surely you would expect that He would hear His Father's voice every day like on the telephone. But no, the Bible indicates that Jesus had to live by faith just as we do. In fact, there is no evidence in the Bible that Jesus ever heard His Father's voice in a physical sense throughout the 30 years of His life on earth before His baptism. And then when He was baptized and a voice was heard from heaven saying, "This is My beloved Son in whom I am well pleased," those words were nothing more than direct quotations from the Old Testament, Psalm 2:7 and Isaiah 42:1. So even then as He began His ministry, Jesus had to rely on what the Bible says, rather than on a direct communication from Heaven.

Are you waiting for a telephone call from Heaven, or an e-mail, or even a letter addressed to you signed by God? You already have it in the Bible. You say, Everybody has that! I want something special!

Well, you have something special, because the Holy Spirit is given to you specially, to abide with you forever (that's John 14:16), and He Himself communicates the words of the Bible directly and specially to you as if you were the only person on earth. Now, believe it; read your Bible slowly, thoughtfully; take each promise as directed to you personally. That is precisely what Jesus did. And when you pray in His name, that is precisely what you do!

From the "Dial Daily Bread" Archive: 1994 Phone Message.

Copyright © 2011 by Robert J. Wieland.

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