You know, I feel like God has been teaching me a few things. All of it is related together. And I think it all wraps up with being in-tune with God.

I have to say that I don’t think I am very in-tune with God most of my days. It is so easy for me to sweep God aside and just do my thing, whether it be work or watching a movie or even sometimes church. I forget about Him. My mind and my heart are not paying attention to Him.

I believe now that God speaks to us way more than we know. In a number of places throughout scripture, especially in the New Testament, God tells us that He speaks to us, and that we, His sheep, hear His voice. Do you believe that God speaks to you all the time?

I believe that He speaks to me all the time. I just don’t think I hear Him very well. I don’t pay very good attention to Him. And that’s what I mean when I say I believe that I am more out of tune with God than I am in-tune with Him, and that it is easy for me to brush Him aside.

I also think that people use the excuse that God gives us free choice. Yes we have free will and God does not nor will not control our actions, and He also gives us brains and wisdom to make our own choices, but I still believe that God speaks to us about a lot of things. I think God knows what’s best for us and has some things to say to us about our lives and the choices we make.

So for me, the challenge is to be more in-tune with God in my life. I’ll still make choices daily, but I want to bring everything before God and submit it to Him in prayer. And He might not say anything at all about it, and so I’ll carry on doing it. But He just might have something to say about it, and then that presents me the challenge to pay attention to what He is saying. Especially if I don’t like what He is saying.

And it’s not just in the things that I do and the choices that I make that I should be in-tune with God about. I just need to pay attention to Him no matter what I am doing, because He just might have something, anything, to say to me or ask me. But it is not easy, and I don’t think I will ever achieve perfection in this, but I can still strive towards it, towards Jesus.

Are you in-tune with God?