How listening to God kept me safe

Have you ever wondered if you’ve heard God speaking to you or felt God’s guidance? I’ve had many experiences where I’ve had a strong feeling of direction in time of need. I attribute that to God. These divine nudges or spiritual messages are what the Bible calls the “still small voice” (I Kings 19:12) of God. Sometimes, it might seem that the direction makes little or no sense in the moment. But when I’m willing to listen and be obedient, I’m always grateful later!

Recently, I was driving in a mountainous region that was unfamiliar to me. I was listening to that week’s Bible Lesson from the Christian Science Quarterly as I drove. There were blue skies and crisp temperatures, and the landscape was beautiful in every direction. As I listened to the part of the Lesson about Moses feeling inadequate to share God’s message and lead the Israelites out of Egypt, I thought about how every day the same sort of inadequacies try to present themselves to our thought as who we are. But if we truly understand that we are the image and likeness of God—as the Bible tells us—then no inadequacy is possible. We reflect God, good, including all His qualities, and can never be without what we need. It was a very simple thought, but I loved thinking about it. 

I got this feeling that I needed to slow down—now.

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