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Bible Question: How
do you know when Jesus is talking to you? When I am talking to Him
and asking for advice, how can I tell if it is Him who is telling
me what to do?
Bible Answer: There
are several ways in which God talks to us today. He speaks to us through
the creation, through our conscience, and He speaks to us directly
through the Bible. Jesus does not normally speak to us individually
or by using an audible voice.
Speaks To Us Indirectly. God
has designed the world that we live in in such a way as to encourage
men and women to ask. "Is there a God?" Therefore, it should
not be surprising that God has designed into our universe contradictions
and mysteries. Our world was designed by God and not by random chance.
One
such mystery is that scientists now know that the universe is made
of stuff like ourselves and other stuff that "isn't like the
stuff of which we're made." They call it dark matter, but scientists
do not know what the "stuff" is. They have not been able
to find it. The scientists who assume that dark matter exists have
discovered that this still does not explain the structure of the universe.
"There's a third component out there, and it's not matter but
some form of dark energy . . . After adding up all the potential sources
of dark matter and ordinary matter, astronomers still come up two-thirds
short." (The Greatest Unanswered Questions of Physics. Discover.
Feb. 2002. p. 38). God has given the scientists a clue that there
is a cosmic designer power at work - God. Man does not have all of
the answers. He will always be digging because God is infinite and
He has designed this universe to reflect Who He is.
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“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways
My ways," declares the LORD. “For as the heavens are
higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways
and My thoughts than your thoughts.” (NASB) Isa. 55:8-9 |
We live in God’s universe – not a scientist’s universe.
A scientist would have created a simple, sterile, mathematical place
to live. The universe tells us that there is a God.
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For
since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His
eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being
understood through what has been made, so that they are without
excuse. (NASB) Rom. 1:20 |
God
also speaks to us through our conscience. God has written His moral
law into our conscience to convict us of sin and to encourage us to
be holy.
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. . they show the work of the Law written in their hearts, their
conscience bearing witness and their thoughts alternately accusing
or else defending them . . . (NASB) Rom. 2:15 |
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