Stop talking and listen to God
So when we read the Bible we have the sense that we are actually listening to the voice of God. He's speaking to us, and so we say as you remember Samuel was taught to say, "Speak Lord, because your servant is listening." In some ways, that's the most difficult thing in the world for us and it's becoming more difficult because we're living in a world where young people are educated to have opinions. I've noticed over the years that I've taught in Bible College there has been a tremendous shift in people's ability to write because they're not encouraged to write. They are encouraged to have opinions, and the more they are able to articulate themselves and have opinions, the more impressive they become. And hardly anybody notices that what that transformation in society is doing is producing a nation of people who talk but hardly ever listen and you see that in ordinary life, don't you? People want to talk to you, but if they say as t...