This last week in my General Psychology class, as I was teaching my students the various personality theories, (Freud, Rogers, Skinner, etc.), I wanted to make sure they understood that these were all “natural” men who had developed “natural” ways to explain man, the who am I?—minus a biblical worldview.
As I was preparing my lesson, Holy Spirit reminded me that God is a Person—a Personality. (And He is not a theory!) And He can and wants to be known as a Person who thinks, reasons, feels, judges, chooses, and, most importantly, communicates. Unlike thousands of man-made gods, ours is a speaking God.
From Genesis to Revelation, from Priest to Prophets, God spoke. And while the writer of Hebrews points out that Jesus is God’s final Word of salvation (1:1-2), he also indicates that God still speaks today, and that we need to pay attention to Him (2:2; 3:15). How? He speaks Spirit to spirit (1Cor. 2) thru the written Word. He speaks by answering prayers. He speaks thru life events and everyday circumstances. So since we have a God who speaks, I think it behooves us to work on our listening skills. I know I have room for improvement (now there's an understatement!). What about yours?
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