Paying Attention

   We have all heard the story of the person who was burning in the fire and called on God for help. He wanted to be rescued. So He screamed for God and someone passing by said that they knew the way to escape the fire and for him to follow them. Yet the man believed that God was going to save him, so he did not follow, instead he waited in the fire. Then a firefighter came and said that he was there to rescue the man. Still the man remembered that he had called on God to rescue him and so he did not go with the firefighter. Finally the building collapsed and the man lost consciousness. He woke up in the hospital a few days later. Someone picked him up out of the fire after he passed out.
   The man was baffled why he did not see God come down on a cloud of fire and pick him up out of the flames. he started to feel complete doubt toward God. Now we know that God was helping him when he sent the man and the firefighter. But what we don't sometimes see is that this happens everyday in our lives. God may be trying to tell us something extremely important but we are waiting for Him to show up on our doorstep with a stone tablet. Listen to God through Christian counsel, through our conscience of good and bad, and through His Word! He may be speaking more than you think!