But as you mature spiritually, don’t you want God to send you a special gift-wrapped message with your name on it-for Him to reveal something very specific about your life? When that time comes, you need to know how to listen for His voice. We allow others to spoon-feed us the Word of God. I wanted my own gift-one that had been picked out especially for me.Īs believers, we oftentimes get used to and even become dependent upon hand-me-down revelations about God. Suddenly when I watched Chrystal unwrap the box, I wasn’t as happy anymore. But something happened to me when I was about nine or ten. In fact, I would get excited watching her unwrap everything because I knew that eventually she would outgrow it, and it would be mine. I didn’t mind that the box was for my sister. Inside was the beautiful kind of clothes little girls used to wear-dresses with big frills at the bottom and patent leather shoes. Every year a box arrived with Chrystal’s name on it, and every year I watched her unpack all the goodies. While I was growing up, my grandmother always gave my older sister a box of clothes and shoes for Christmas.
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