Mark 13:11

But when you are arrested and stand trial do not worry about what you will say in your defense.  Just say what God tells you to.

          So how do we say what God tells us to?  What does that mean?  I picture a world leader addressing the masses with an earpiece hidden from sight, repeating what he hears from an inspirational speech writer.  But we don’t have some divine, “earpiece”… or do we? 

          When Christ left his disciples he told them in Acts 1:4-5 to, “wait for the gift that the Father promised.”  That gift was our divine earpiece; the one who would empower us to communicate with the Creator of the universe.  So how do we turn that earpiece on?

          I don’t think it’s as much a matter of turning our earpiece on as it is knowing what God would say.  If we see ourselves more as ambassadors representing God, speaking on his behalf, then we simply become as familiar as we can with His values, His principals and run everything we say through that criteria. 

           We should always be ready to give an answer for the hope that is within us.  Tuning into God, hearing from Him is first a matter of a getting familiar with who He is and his message to us through the Holy Scriptures.  Then we have to find time to commune with Him to know when He is stirring and speaking to us. 

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