Shut up and Listen.

I’ve always been one of those guys that no matter how much you try and tell me, I just try and come up with the answers myself. This has pretty much been the same in my faith.

I find I have to ask questions, I have to explore possibilities and till I come to the conclusion that the answer has already been given to me. I’ve very rearly taken someone’s word for it. I was on a weekend last month that explored how God wanted or could use you. Or even how we could use our skills and pations for his good. People around me where finding things out and seeing what god was wanting of them. 

People kept telling me what they could see was my “talent” and what I should be looking into, but for me it just wasn’t clear. Then right at the end a guy stood up and said “don’t doubt what you’ve been hearing, go and explore it” 

That really hit me, the fact people had been clear in what they could see in me, people that I’d only me a day before. Strangers that could see something in me that was of God. 

Sometimes we want to ignore what we don’t like, sometimes have ideas above our station. And sometimes we just don’t believe what others say because it does come into our life’s safety zone. And I guess when that guy stood up and said not to doubt it was God saying to me “shut up, and listen” 

Dalai Lame once said something like “when you speak you only repeat something you already know, but when you listen you learn something new”. What a great way to hear from God through others around you.