Sometimes I marvel at why we do not listen to the Spirits still small voice. We know it is always right. Always leading us the right way. I had a small experience with this today.
It was 5pm and I was logging out of my PC to go home. I normally have one particular way that I walk out of the building, however there are several ways to get to my exit out of the building. I heard that still small thought (sounded just the way it always does) saying..... "Walk out going toward entrance B." Me, being stubborn I say something like, "Why would I wanna go that way? I always go the other way. I don't need to go that way." The Spirit gave me the thought again to go that way. Again, I said, "I wanna go the other way because I always say goodnight to Stephanie (she is a really sweet friend of mine at work)." Well, the Spirit won..... I began to walk that way and to my surprise I turn to corner and there is guess who?!?! Stephanie standing at the copier. Well, what do you know? ha!
The copier was jammed up and she had been there trying to find the paper jam. I put my things down and we both began to hunt and peck for this paper jam. Now our copiers/printers are not that easy. They have tons of little hidden places..... paper could be hiding anywhere!!! We tried and tried and could not find it. The copier was telling us there was a jam in a particular area, but we could not even find that area. Finally after numerous times of trying to fix it ourselves, we decided to look at the copier screen to see what it was telling us to do. Now we use this copier everyday and it gets jammed ALL the time, and we have never noticed this before. We watch the screen and start to open the places it is showing us, as we open and close each space, the screen changed and it told us EXACTLY how to find what we were looking for. Problem solved. Copier was happy, so were we. :-)
I had to tell you all of that to tell you what Jesus taught me what I got home. The Spirit of God is the copier. It is always telling us step by step EXACTLY what to do, where to go. All we have to do is follow the directions, EXACTLY. We get in our carnal minds and try to figure it out ourselves. We will never figure it out. Jesus is always standing there with the sign saying, "This is the way!"
