We whistle to call our dogs. We tap the tank to get our fish’s attention. Grandparents sit up and listen to the sound of the phone. “Dinner is ready” brings the family running.
We’ve got something good to offer, and everyone wants a part. All we have to do is get their attention.
God wants our attention, because he’s got something good to offer us.
Deuteronomy 18:18 says:
“I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers. And I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I command him.”
Of course this is Jesus. We learn also that he is the light of the world in John 8:12. He is the one through whom God speaks to us in Hebrews 1:2. He is our judge in John 12:48.
Malachi 3:1 tells us God will even send us a messenger to prepare the way for our Lord.
God is whistling for our attention. He’s reaching a mighty finger and tapping at the confines of our world to let us know something good is on the way.
What does he have in readiness for us?
John 15:15 tells us:
“No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.”
God is calling us to tell us he loves us. He wants us filled with the goodness of his presence. He wants to spend time with us. He’s plying us with his cry, “The table is set. Come and feast on my bounty. It is prepared at my hands, and I desire to share it with you.”
He wants us to live filled up with every good thing he has set aside for us.
Read of him in Isaiah 45:7:
“I form light and create darkness, I make well-being and create calamity, I am the Lord, who does all these things.”
There is no good thing he cannot offer us from his mighty hand.
God will fill us up. All we need to do is make ourselves ready and listen when he calls.
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