Daily Devotions
When God Has Not Spoken
Reading for August 26th: Ezekiel 13-15
"Have you not seen a false vision and uttered a lying divination, whenever you have said, 'Declares the LORD,' although I have not spoken?"
Ezekiel 13:7
We need to be careful to never assume what God is thinking. Unless we can point to the book, the chapter, and the verse, we don't know what the will of God is. We're just guessing. And while guessing may be good for a few extra points on a test at school, it won't work in our spiritual lives
Guessing where God has not spoken is dangerous. When trying to determine the will of God, we should never be satisfied with "I think" or "I feel." Rather, we should not rest until we have found a "Thus says the Lord." What has God said? What has God implied?
And once we hear the clear voice of God in his Word, we should be satisfied with that, even if we don't agree with it. Or, should I say, ESPECIALLY WHEN WE DON'T AGREE! We must never search the Scriptures trying to find the thing that we want or desire.
If God has not spoken, then we should just leave it alone.
Father, defeat us when we seek to do wrong by inventing in our own imagination what your will for us is. May we ever seek to listen carefully to you in your Word and not confuse our thoughts for your thoughts.
