Messages From God's Touch

Jeremiah 1:9--- Then the LORD put forth his hand, and touched my mouth. And the LORD said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth.

We can all be sensitive to God's touch. Let us say you find yourself sitting in jail. Let us assume you are sitting in jail because you were arrested for drunk driving. Let us also say you have lost several jobs because of your drinking problem. In jail, you find yourself alone, with no one coming to see you or caring about you. If you draw a life map of your past and present life while sitting in jail, you should see a pattern. What you should see on your life map are many wrong turns. On your life map, you should see a pattern emerge and you should see every time you make a wrong turn or make a mistake, bad things happen. However, hidden in every mistake, in every wrong turn, and in every painful memory, there is a message from God. Likewise, every success, every joy, and every good memory of your life also contains a message from God. Figuring things out in life sounds incredibly simple put in terms of drawing a life map. However, in reality, things are not this simple because we so often do not want to look at our lives in realistic ways. Quite often we do not want to draw a map of our lives even if we had the capability of doing so. Figuring things out about our lives and how God communicates to us can be simple. This process of hearing God requires us to be truthful with God and with ourselves. However, being truthful with God and with ourselves is not easy. Yet when we are truthful with ourselves and with God, we point ourselves in the right direction. Even when we tell ourselves the truth, things are still not easy, but when we tell ourselves the truth, we become free.