Whisper

I'm reading a new book about God whispering to us. I've really been struggling with what God wants me to do with my life. I'm not used to having a baby as a variable in my life.

The first chapter hit me. If we listen to God's whisper, he can use any variable in our life to bring him glory.

I'm learning I'm not in control. I just need to listen to God's whisper when it comes and I will find peace in my life.

I also need to accept that God can whisper one thing, and then later on lead me somewhere else. It doesn't mean I failed the first time, it just means that he was preparing me for something greater.

Such beautiful words written in this hymn:

Hushed was the evening hymn,
The temple courts were dark;
The lamp was burning dim
Before the sacred ark;

When suddenly a voice divine
Rang through the silence of the shrine.
The old man, meek and mild,
The priest of Israel, slept;

His watch the temple child,
The little Levite, kept;
And what from Eli’s sense was sealed
The Lord to Hannah’s son revealed.

O give me Samuel’s ear,
The open ear, O Lord,
Alive and quick to hear
Each whisper of Thy Word,
Like him to answer at Thy call,
And to obey Thee first of all.

O give me Samuel’s heart,
A lowly heart, that waits
Where in Thy house Thou art,
Or watches at Thy gates;
By day and night, a heart that still
Moves at the breathing of Thy will.

O give me Samuel’s mind,
A sweet unmurm’ring faith,
Obedient and resigned
To Thee in life and death,
That I may read with child like eyes
Truths that are hidden from the wise. 

-James D. Burns

I love the part that says "By day and night, a heart that still moves at the breathing of Thy will."