Ordinary Superhero

After hearing that President Bush may have started the war in Iraq because God told him to, I got to thinking about what God would say if he had the chance.

There will be people who say they hear the voice of God on a daily basis, but I’m not one of them. As a Christian, I have a relationship with him, and certainly he communicates with me, but not in that way. I get communication through what others say, what I read day by day, and in the way my life is guided.

That said, I do believe that I heard God’s voice once. It was part of an exercise where we were trying to hear him, so you can argue that I just wanted to hear something. My question is this – if God could talk to you directly, what would he say?

“Stop picking your nose!”
“Go and feed the Hungry!”
“You’re a really bad person!”
“Sometimes I wonder why I bother!”

I suppose it depends on your point of view. I watched and enjoyed Joan of Arcadia. It was fun, and althrough it’s not real, some of the points it raised were interesting. Joan was told to do many things, often in mysterious and obscure ways. I don’t ever remember God telling her what I believe he told me.

So, by now, you think I’m a psycho, but my point is that it doesn’t really matter whenter I heard him or not. I believe that what he said would have been the same as what I heard, even if I imagined it.

He said “I love you!”

That’s it. No fanfare, no big speech, no instructions on Ark building, just a simple phrase. The point is that that is where it starts. WHatever I may need to do after that, or about that come second to the primary impetus for his relationship with me.

I can’t recommend Philip Yancey’s “What’s so Amazing about Grace” enough.

I’d have to be very careful if I thought he was telling me to take decisions which affected the lives of billions.

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