God Talks Like Bumblebee the Transformer 

“And He said, Go out and stand on the mount before the Lord. And behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains and broke in pieces the rocks before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind; and after the wind an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake; And after the earthquake a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire; and after the fire a sound of gentle stillness and a still, small voice.”  1 Kings 19:11-12 (AMP)

It feels weird to say that God speaks to me or that God told me something.  I often wonder if people think I’m a little crazy when I say things like that!  I don’t hear voices in my head, and I’ve never heard an audible voice.  It’s just simply my own thoughts that sometimes seem to come out of nowhere or reading a word or phrase in one or more bible verses that just seem to stick out for some reason.  In the bible, God spoke to Elijah.  It says in 1 Kings 19:11-12 that there was a strong wind but the Lord was not in the wind, and after the wind an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake, and after the earthquake a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire and after the fire was a still, small voice which was the Lord’s.  Many times I think that people believe that if God is going to speak to us it is going to be a big, grand ordeal, but that is rarely the case. 

Here’s one picture that comes to my mind when I think of how God talks to us…that God talks like Bumblebee the Transformer. 🙂  In the Transformers movies, you know how Bumblebee used to talk to Sam?  He used parts of songs on the radio or audio clips to get what he wanted to say across to Sam because he couldn’t actually talk to him since his voice box had been damaged.  It was funny because he would actually take different parts of different verses and choruses from various songs or audio clips or quotes from movies and piece them together to form his message.

That’s kind of how God talks to us sometimes.  God talks like Bumblebee in that He uses bit and pieces of things to get messages across to us at times.  Sometimes He uses different verses, or parts of verses, out of the Bible.  Sometimes it’s the same words or phrases repeated in different verses of the bible that we come across.  Other times He uses our thoughts or even other people.  God can speak to us in many ways—often with just one word or a phrase.  Sometimes He’ll speak to us through our surroundings—it may be a bumper sticker or billboard, a song on the radio, something we read online, an overheard conversation or something on TV.  Sometimes we’ll come across a repeated theme in various areas (i.e. you might hear a church sermon, hear a song and/or read a devotion that all seem to coincidentally have the same message or theme).

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