I was at a huge music conference in Nashville a couple years ago and the radio station that brought me along was interviewing Rebecca St. James. She was beautiful, talented, and single. She said, “I can’t tell you how many times guys come up to me and say, “God told me to marry you.” And she’s like, “That’s funny, why hasn’t God told me that?”
I think people need to be real careful about throwing around the “God told me” thing, because if God didn’t really tell you this or that, then you are (either knowingly or unknowingly) lying on behalf of God. And that’s just dumb and dangerous.
I think we should earnestly seek to know and understand what God may be trying to convey to us, but we also need to go about this with great care. That’s what we’ll learn from the text in Acts this week! I’d like offer several tests that may help us discern God’s “voice” this Sunday morning, 9:15 and 11:00.
Cheers!
Mark
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