Does God Have Your Attention?

How do you learn from God? By the things that happen in your daily life? By reading the Word? Through the advice of friends? A combo? How does God want us to learn from Him?

He wants us to learn through the Holy Spirit. In I John 2:27, it says, “But the anointing which you have received from Him abides in you, and you do not need that anyone teach you; but as the same anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you will abide in Him.” The “anointing” and “Him” refer to the Holy Spirit.

Often we go through trials that we think are from God but really aren’t. There’s a very real enemy in our world and in the heavenlies who is determined to “kill, steal and destroy” us. He causes all kinds of bad things to happen…things we wrongfully attribute to God. For example, I heard someone say that she thought God “needed” her loved one in heaven and therefore took him. That’s so wrong. The Bible clearly states in I Corinthians 15:26, that “the last enemy that will be destroyed is death.” So how can death be from God if it is an enemy of God? It can’t be. Neither can illness. God won’t “use” illness to teach you something. God will use the Holy Spirit to teach you.

The problem lies when we do get sick or hurt and turn to God in the midst of it. Sometimes we turn to Him so quickly and discover Him to be right there that we somehow feel that He brought the situation to us. But He didn’t. It’s not His style. All good things come from God. The enemy is the deceiver and would have us believe that he’s the innocent one and that God is the guilty one. But it’s not true.