Deuteronomy 4:12 And the Lord spake unto you out of the midst of the fire: ye heard the voice of the words, but saw no similitude; only ye heard a voice.

Much has been said about men and women who claim to hear the Lord. Almost all of it is an accusation of insanity. If they heard the Lord out of the midst of the fire themselves, would they think themselves insane? I belief the answer to that would be yes.

Man created graven images and worshipped them and they did not think that insane. Personally, I think that is insane, but I am not qualified to diagnosis a medical condition. I am however qualified to declare that my Lord is real, He does save, and that He does change lives.

I am a witness of these miracles and they are miracles. The scoffers proclaim that man can and does improve his own condition. I will not dispute that claim, but it is seen from a human perspective and not from God’s perspective. The difference between the two is that I did not change, I was changed only by God’s effort, and nothing that I had personally done. That is where the miracle part comes into play.

Now comes the most dangerous of questions which sounds much like the scoffers accusations. Are you changed by God or playing church? I know that there are some that do, I’ve seen it myself. This is not something I ask lightly and cannot answer for you. You have to search deep within your own heart to see if the Lord abides in you or if you see Him as a thing apart.

John 15:4a Abide in me, and I in you.

Exodus 3:7-10 And the Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows; And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites. Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them. Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt.

A deliverer was sent and Moses was not the only one. Over and over again God set men in place to be examples of delivery. Moses being the best known because God worked mighty miracles to set Himself apart from any god that had been proclaimed in those days. The Great I Am proved Himself to be the God of gods, and there were none like Him.

Yet the King of Kings was yet to be declared and more examples needed to be set before men before they would be able to recognize God’s Anointed One. Their God was God but their Savior was to be a man, His Anointed. That was going to take more examples because there was always the lingering doubt that God would ever lower Himself to the dust of the ground and enter in as man.

That prejudice would take much longer and many more examples in order to overcome.

Acts 7:52 Which one of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? They killed those who had previously announced the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers you have now become; NASB