Today's daily lesson comes from Isaiah 30 verse 21:
And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, “This is the way, walk in it,” when you turn to the right or when you turn to the left.
One of the most important things we must do in order to get where we need to go in life is to learn to trust the voice we hear inside our spirits.
A couple of weeks back I had the serendipity of getting to listen to Bishop Carlton Pearson preach at the Cathedral of Hope in Dallas. Bishop Pearson was raised in a conservative Pentecostal home and grew up to become one of the most high-profile pastors in Southern, black fundamentalism. But 10 years ago, he went through a spiritual transformation which led him to a place where he could no longer think and speak of God as full of wrath, ready to inflict eternal damnation on disobedient humanity, but rather as a loving and longing parent seeking to woo his/her wayward children back to home. This was of course not an easy transformation for Bishop Pearson as many he was deemed a heretic and thousands of followers left him. But, as he said in his sermon, there are things the we have been taught to believe about God which conflict with what we know in our spirits to be true about God. Bishop Pearson decided to trust what he knew to be true in his spirit; he decided to follow the voice of God speaking from within his own soul.
God speaks to us along our path. We know in the depths of our spirits what He/She is saying. We know that it is the way, the truth, and the life. And we know that it is beautiful.
What we have to do is hear the voice, and forgetting all else, follow it. I guarantee we'll be glad we did . . .
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