Friday, November 14, 2008

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Just like all recent Olympics, the ones in Beijing delivered a lot of exciting victories and some heartbreaks as well. Rau’ Shee Warren was one of those heartbreaks. He lost at the last Olympics, and so he declined the money of pro boxing just because he wanted to win the gold in Beijing to give to his mother. He had thirty-five seconds left in his bout. He was waiting in his corner while his opponent gets his glove fixed. People are shouting all kinds of advice from the stands. He was sure someone said, “Move,” which meant he had the lead and should simply avoid getting punched to win, but his coaches were screaming the opposite message. He was actually behind 9-8. He needed to attack, he didn’t, he lost because he listened to the wrong voices. So have I.

I’m Ron Hutchcraft and too many times I’ve been facing an important decision and there were a lot of voices pulling on me. Sometimes they have drowned out the only voice I can trust to give me the direction I never regret. The Bible says, “Be still and know that I am God” (Psalm 46:10 ). If I want to discover the life that matters He made me for, I’ve got to make time to be alone with God to hear His voice, which is often a still, small voice unlike all those others.

Jesus described Himself as our Good Shepherd. He said, “The sheep listen to his voice and his sheep follow him” (John 10:3-4 ). Do what Jesus did. Take time to be alone until you’ve heard God’s voice in your heart and trust what you feel most consistently when you’re just with Him no matter what the other voices are saying.

We’d love to help you draw closer to Him and know how to follow Him more, and our website is all about that. It’s ALifeThatMatters.org because God put you here to live a life that matters.

This radio program references: Psalm 46:10 ; John 10:3-4