A little voice

I was getting ready to go to an appointment one summer afternoon and was about to throw on a loose, lightweight dress shirt when a voice spoke up in my head with a message.  You know that voice.  The one that kind of let's you know what you ought to do before you do it.  We've all heard it in our heads from time to time.  This time it was telling me to put on a t-shirt under my dress shirt.  I thought to myself, "That's the craziest thing.  It's summer.  A hot one at that."  Honestly, my preference is to wear an undershirt.  To me it's more comfortable.  But it was summer and I thought it was my preference talking to me.  So I started to ignore it thinking about how hot it had been all summer.  But the voice wouldn't go away.  So I relented.  I thought to myself, "Well, I'll be out til evening so at least I won't be sweltering the whole time."

Boy, am I glad I gave in.  It turned out the place where my meeting was held had one of those uncontrollable A/C systems.  We've all experience those buildings where the central air has no communication with the rest of the building.  The rooms cool down to 65 degrees and the later in the day the more efficient the A/C works so that by the time you leave at 9 o'clock and it's 74 degrees outside and 54 degrees inside. Others were reaching for sweaters and covering their sleeveless shoulders with their hands or any piece of cloth they could find.  Frankly, I was a little chilled all evening long as well.  Then as I was reflecting on the evening on the way home in the car I realized what had taken place while I was dressing.  If I hadn't listened to that voice I would have frozen to death.

The reality is that all of us have that little voice.  Isaiah 30:21says, "Your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, 'This is the way, walk in it,' Whenever you turn to the right hand, Or whenever you turn to the left."  God speaks to us through His Holy Spirit.  And He helps us by doing more than just telling us right from wrong.  That is His primary task but He also gives us a little extra help from time to time.  But it does us no good in big things or little if we don't listen.  That voice inside your head, pay attention to it.  Learn to develop your ear for it.  God will guide you in many ways if you will learn to listen to Him speaking to you and obey.