Are we 'self-feeders', or do we like it better hearing God's truth from men? There is a reason we choose man as the messenger, over God as the instructor...it is much easier to ignore a man's delivery versus God's delivery. "He's just a man like me; I'll take what I like, ignore the rest."
They said to Moses, ’You speak with us, and we will hear; but let not God speak with us, lest we die’ - Exodus 20:19
We "Dis" (today's teenager slang for disrespect) God by choosing a man's delivery over His personal delivery.
We don’t consciously and deliberately disobey God - we simply don’t listen to Him. God has given His commands to us, but we pay no attention to them - not because of willful disobedience, but because we do not truly love and respect Him. "If you love Me, keep My commandments" (John 14:15). Once we realize we have constantly been showing disrespect to God, we will be filled with shame and humiliation for ignoring Him.
We like a little faith, but leave the radical faith outside; what I don't know, I don't know.
"You speak with us...but let not God speak with us..." We show how little love we have for God by preferring to listen to His servants rather than to Him. We like to listen to personal testimonies, but we don’t want God Himself to speak to us. Why are we so terrified for God to speak to us? It is because we know that when God speaks we must either do what He asks or tell Him we will not obey. But if it is simply one of God’s servants speaking to us, we feel obedience is optional, not imperative. We respond by saying, "Well, that’s only your own idea, even though I don’t deny that what you said is probably God’s truth."
God wants us living in His Kingdom, while we are living inside of His fallen creation.
Am I constantly humiliating God by ignoring Him, while He lovingly continues to treat me as His child? Once I finally do hear Him, the humiliation I have heaped on Him returns to me. My response then becomes, "Lord, why was I so insensitive and obstinate?" This is always the result once we hear God. But our real delight in finally hearing Him is tempered with the shame we feel for having taken so long to do so.
Oswald Chambers
When you place your faith in God, in a radical way - your life's perspective changes forever and you are humiliated...by your ignorance, not by God. His love rejoices inside of you as you come to realization that God wants us to have 100% faith in Him, for every part of our lives. Sit and listen to God, He wants to speak to you directly today.
