| That is the popular and, thank God (if you'll pardon the | | | | doesn't it?Only daring men and women choose to hear |
| use of the G name) the politically correct feeling | | | | God's voice today. Many christians don't hear God |
| among most Christians today. You will recall that in the | | | | because they don't know what exercises to do that |
| second book of the Potter series, The Chamber Of | | | | would enable them to hear his voice. While other |
| Secrets, Harry Potter alone heard the voice of the | | | | christians choose not to hear God out of fear of what |
| basilisk. When he confided in his two friends about it, | | | | their friends will say about them. They will likely be |
| one told him that even in the wizarding world, hearing | | | | considered to be crazy, religious fanatics, and |
| voices is not a good thing. Like art imitating reality, can't | | | | attempting to glorify themselves. Worst yet, those |
| we say that even in our non-wizarding world, it's not a | | | | christians will be imposing their morality on the rest of |
| good thing to be hearing voices. Whether those voices | | | | us because they claim to have heard God. Right?The |
| be God's or someone else's voice.Most of us would | | | | value of hearing God is that it saves lives. I recall the |
| agree that hearing voices in your head, voices that | | | | time that God told me to pray for a certain Dee Jay |
| aren't there, this is indeed a bad thing. In fact it used to | | | | (Strawberry Jan) that used to be on KEZY 1190 AM. |
| be a sign of being crazy. But what if the person claims | | | | He told me that she was in danger and I was to pray |
| to be hearing God's voice? How can we know if God | | | | for her often. So I did, even though I didn't know her, |
| is speaking to this guy such that we can't immediately | | | | and knew nothing of her personal or professional life. |
| lock him up in the looney bin?The obvious answer is | | | | Six years later she was nearly killed by a drunk driver |
| that we, the non-Harry Potter-hearing-voices-people, | | | | on the freeway. Finally about 15 years later I met |
| have to recall the eleven different ways that God | | | | Strawberry Jan in person. I am certain that my prayers |
| speaks to mankind. Some of those ways are | | | | were central to God's plan to save her life in that |
| observable and objectively verifiable. Others are not | | | | accident, prevent certain injuries and lessen others |
| observable but they can be verified. Examples in the | | | | during the years.If you are courageous and want to |
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| out loud and all the other Israelites could hear their | | | | or by email at Mark B. Replogle is an Attorney at Law |
| conversation. Or when God the Father spoke to Jesus | | | | in private practice in California. He is also the author of |
| during his baptism, and the others gathered around | | | | the book Saviour Clinton: An Evil American King. Last |
| heard that talk. Or when the wayward prophet | | | | year he served with the Marine Central Comand's |
| Balaam had a talking to by his donkey. Makes you | | | | Staff Judge Advocate in Bahrain before and during |
| wonder who the dumb animal was at that time, | | | | the war in Iraq. |