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GOD DOTH TALK WITH MAN
TUESDAY, AUGUST 10
Deuteronomy 5:22-33

Exodus 20:18-23

 

“Go thou near, and hear all that the
LORD our God shall say: and

speak thou unto us all…”

 

GOD DOTH TALK WITH MAN
 
Deism teaches that God exists but He left mankind to fend for himself without His divine intervention and communication. How wrong and evil this doctrine is to erase the loving God from man’s life. The truth is that God has never stopped communicating with man. If God were to stop speaking with man, man would be doomed to die in sin and justly cast into the abyss of everlasting torment.
 
Thank God that He continues to speak with man. He speaks with man “at sundry times and in divers manners … by the prophets” (Heb 1:1). This is how God describes His communication with His people in Old Testament times. But in Deuteronomy 5 (cf. Exod 20), God talked to man from Mt Sinai and gave man the Decalogue. Man heard His awesome thundering voice for the first and last time. He feared God when he heard Him. He was right to fear Him! But it was not meant to drive him from God but toward Him. For the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom and knowledge. This is the first reason for God talking to man. Man needs to know Christ as Lord and Saviour to return to God. God gave man the Ten Commandments to help him realize that he has sinned against God and only Christ can save him from the wrath of God. God doth talk with man today too, but through His Holy Word.
 
The second reason is that God lives. God is not dead. Do not make Him into the dead idols that see not, with ears that hear not and mouths that speak not. Since God is alive He sees, hears, and speaks. Man will be comforted even as Israel was comforted as they left Egypt on their way to the Promised Land. It was a journey of trouble and difficulties but the living God was with them all the way. This is also true for man today. God comforts, assures, encourages, and protects when we are hurt and feel down. God admonishes when we stray. God hears our cry when we pray. God provides our every need when we are osctracised. God remains faithful when we are unfaithful. This is all true only for those who believe that God doth talk with man.
 
THOUGHT: Do I hear God’s voice when I read the Word of God or when God’s Word is preached?

PRAYER: Heavenly Father, open my ears that I may hear.

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