Me:  Did you enjoy the show?

Prodigal:  He was a-dancin’ and a-hollerin’ like a barefoot boy in a bed of fire ants.

Me:  I thought he was a little much.

 

This is from the book The Pursuit of God by A.W. Tozer

 

This universal Voice of God was by the ancient Hebrews often called Wisdom, and was said to be everywhere sounding and searching throughout the earth, seeking some response from the sons of men.  The eighth chapter of the Book of Proverbs begins, “Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice?”  The writer then pictures wisdom as a beautiful woman standing “in the top of the high places, by the way in the places of the paths.”  She sounds her voice from every quarter so that no one may miss hearing it.  “Unto you, O men, I call;  and my voice is to the sons of men.”  Then she pleads for the simple and the foolish to give ear to her words.  It is spiritual response for which this Wisdom of God is pleading, a response which she has always sought and is but rarely able to secure.  The tragedy is that our eternal welfare depends upon our hearing and we have trained our ears not to hear.

 

He who has ears to hear, let him hear.  Pray that the Lord will allow you to hear his quiet small voice today.  Remember we are to love and revenge is not our part in this world, that is left to the Lord.

 

And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered:  for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call.

Joel 2:32

 

Jennifer Van Allen

www.theprodigalpig.com

www.faithincounseling.org