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One of my favorite shows in the eighties was Magnum PI. I just loved watching him ride around Hawaii in his red Ferrari. Tom Selleck was good-looking and he always got the girl and caught the bad guy. The scenery was gorgeous too and he had two besties that were in on all of his cases. What more could you want in a sixty minute show?
Magnum narrated parts of his show and he was always talking about the little voice inside his head. When he listened to the little voice, things turned out okay. But, he often ignored his little voice and it usually got him into trouble.
We all have a little voice inside our heads. We sometimes listen to it and we sometimes ignore it. Most of the time, when we listen to it, we are able to stay on the right path. When we don’t, we often find ourselves saying something like, “I knew I should or shouldn’t have done, (fill in the blank)” or “Something told me I needed to do (fill in the blank), but I didn’t.”
Has this ever happened to you? It has happened to me a lot and I started wondering about this voice and where it comes from. Is it some sort of imaginary Jiminy Cricket like Pinocchio had? As I began to ponder this, the story of Samuel popped into my mind. His story is found in 1 and 2 Samuel in the Bible.
Samuel was a young boy who was living in the temple with an old priest named Eli. He did a good job serving the Lord. One night when he went to bed, he heard his name called, “Samuel!” He went to see what Eli needed, but Eli hadn’t called him and he returned to bed. This happened three times and Eli figured out that it was God calling him, so he told him to go back to bed and answer, “Speak, your servant is listening.” Samuel did what he was told.
When God called him the fourth time, Samuel told him he was listening, and boy, did God start talking. He had a ton to say. Samuel became a famous prophet for the rest of his life. He was actually the one he anointed King David.
Why did God pick Samuel? Was it because he was doing God’s work or was it because he was listening? I think maybe, it was both. Maybe Samuel could hear God because he was serving God. I also think it’s important that someone older and wiser helped to point the way.
What does this mean for us? I think God speaks to us all of the time through that little voice in our heads. If we want to grow closer to Him, we have to listen. If we want to hear it loudly and clearly, then perhaps we should do more than listen; we should do. We should serve.
I’m going to try to do a better job at listening for God. What about you? What do you think about that little voice? Feel free to comment.
Have an awesome day!
Wendy 🙂