Can you hear Him???

Someone once said that God is willing to speak to us more than we are willing to listen. Sometimes when we don’t hear what we want to hear from God we doubt whether we are able to hear from Him.  

[John 10:3-4] “The gatekeeper opens the gate for Him, and the sheep listen to His voice. He calls His own sheep by name and leads them out… and His sheep follow Him because they know His voice”

  Unless a sheep is lost it is rare that you would find it away from its pen or away from the shepherd’s care.  A sheep follows the shepherd as he directs; it doesn't decide that the direction the shepherd is headed doesn't look promising and find its own way.  

[John 11:43-44] “… Jesus called out in a loud voice, ‘Lazarus, come out’. The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped with strips of linen and a cloth around his face Jesus said to them, "Take off the grave clothes and let him go.”

  Christ called Lazarus out of the grave where he had laid for four days; He doesn't enter the grave to partake in death with Lazarus. We cannot remain in death (sin) and expect to experience Christ as we ought to. 

   “Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In His great mercy He has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade…” [1 Peter 1:3-4] All that we will need is in the resurrection of Christ so whilst Christ will not partake in death with us, even in the grave He calls out to us and like Lazarus we will still hear Him. When we come out and we are bound He places a support system of people around us that will "Take off our grave clothes”

“I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me”

 [Galatians 2:20]

      Today by faith and the knowledge of the resurrection of Christ get to know God's voice listen to Him; when He speaks be quick to obey Him [Psalm 119:60].  Even Death cannot stop you from hearing His voice today be like the sheep and follow Him regardless.