“Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts.”
Hebrews 4:7
God is speaking. And He says two things that He will do: Some time ago, Professor Don Carson was asked to speak at Cambridge University. When he had finished his presentation on biblical Christianity, one of the faculty got up and asked: “So what you’re saying is… if God is a talking God, that changes everything?”
This highly educated man had obviously never encountered biblical Christianity before. The idea that there might be a God who speaks, and therefore could be known, had evidently never occurred to him. The professor offered a brilliant summary of biblical Christianity: “If God is a talking God, that changes everything.”
If God has spoken, you can know Him. If God does not speak, there’s no way you can know Him. But if God speaks, that changes everything. God has spoken because He wants to be known. You can respond to Him in faith and obedience. You can know the love of the Creator who reaches out to you in Jesus Christ.
If God has spoken, you can know the truth. If God had not spoken, then you would have your opinion and others would have their opinions. But if God speaks, that changes everything. If God speaks, then His Word is the truth, against which all opinions must be measured, and there is a foundation on which you can build your life.
If God has spoken, you must listen to what He says. If God did not speak, then how you live is up to you. But if God speaks, that changes everything. There will be a Day of Judgment when every person who has ever lived, including you, will stand before Him. Jesus came into the world so you could be freed from your past sins and brought into a new relationship with God.
When you hear the Word of God are you listening as if God speaks, or as if He doesn’t?
