United Presbyterian Church of Northville

In last Sunday's sermon, I made the claim that "God comes to people through people."  Its not original to me; a professor of mine, Dr. Stewart, said it to us in our first year of Seminary, and if I recall rightly he was, in turn, quoting someone else.  It's an old priniple, in any case, best-proved by the fact that when God really wanted to come to us, God sent his own self as a person.  As I said:  it's not original to me.

But someone asked me, the other day:  What about when God comes directly to us?  Sometimes God uses other people, but doesn't God also sometimes speak directly to us: using our thoughts, and our inner conversations, to speak some message we need?

My answer was something like this: "I imagine that God prefers to use people, but doesn't always find a voice.  And if someone thinks they exclusively hear God's voice, and that they've got their own direct line, they probably need to do a lot more listening to God's people."

What do you all think?  What do you think the Bible tells us?  How has God come to you, what are the signs when it happens, and whom else has God used on the way?

Be well, pray often, and do it all with love.

Kirianne