An interesting Bible passage looked at again.

@innertalks And the actual Word of God (not the written one, which WERE the Word of God, and train you how to hear the real Word) rhymes with ... So you know you're really hearing it right if you check it with ... (the Sanskrit pictured means something like 'I listen for His instructions, He tells me what to do, I try to interpret & follow His instructions, I watch what happens, other things affect it, and life goes on.'

@mythociate We can receive a lot of such messages, some come to us from our own soul, some from God directly. But to be sure, to be sure. It is hard to know where it does come from at times. Even if God tells us it is him, it takes a certain faith to believe that, but the quality of the information/truth received usually goes a long way to convince me too. There are a lot of people out there who claim to have a special channel to some higher being, whose wisdom is very great, and they seem to value it even more than a direct contact with God himself.

Yes, we need to get used to knowing the Great Shepherd's voice too. We have a lot of other distracting voices in our lives, at times, as well. We can learn from nature and even from our own pets. Our pet dog is always being itself, and that in itself is listening to God. As soon as we move away from being our real self in God, we are not listening to our real self, and so in effect, we are also then not listening to God. We listen to ourselves, by living a balanced life. When we do anything in our lives we should take notice of the balance that is now existing as a result of our actions within our lives. This balance is either being helped to be more balanced by our actions, or maybe it is becoming more unbalanced. As soon as we feel an unbalance starting to arise in us, we then need to do something else. When we stop for a minute to think about restoring our lost balance, it will always then come into our head, or into our heart, exactly what is next needed to start to balance us once more again in our lives. We are then listening to our guide, the good Shepherd. This is because we have now stopped for long enough to listen to our real selves, and to the God in us, as well.

Thankyou. I must have not made it too long then...lol...

@macayada Thanks, and I noticed that you read the interesting comments from other readers too.

@innertalks Even if your post is too long I appreciate reading each line up to the end. Thank you.

@innertalks Interesting, - on the site I mentioned we have learned what many of the original words actually mean in Hebrew and Greek

@buenavida Yes, another language used was Aramaic too, I believe.

My father, actually learnt Hebrew, so that he could understand the intent of the original text better too.

@innertalks Well said my friend.

@popciclecold Thankyou.

Yes, hearing from God, is what keeps us going. If I do not hear from him enough, I try to stop myself, in what I am doing, and try to quieten myself down to listen to him. When I hear his voice, it encourages me to go on, and gives me such strength.

Yes, there was more exclusivity/superiority in those days. People thought that these types were savages, not far from being animals. The Australian Aboriginals were treated in that way too. The British settlers used them as sport, and on Sunday afternoons, they used to send a hound pack out to catch one, and string them up like a trophy, and cut off a certain part of a man to use it as a coin pouch too. To their credit, the missionaries still must have thought that they were children of God, as they often still tried to convert them to Christianity.

@Shiva49 Yes, there are such stand-out personalities in every race. I love to read their words, as they seem to be a cut above everybody else in their grasp of true wisdomed truth, and their place in it all, with God.

@innertalks It is still a struggle to accept another as an equal. However, that we are from the same source is vindicated by high intelligence spread all over and also the stupidity of the highest order. Also stand-out personal sacrifices of a few that leave us in wonder how they can rise so high to see the oneness of humanity.

Thankyou, for reading my piece here. I see that you are fairly new here at mylot. I hope you enjoy being here, as much as I do too.

@innertalks thank you

Yes, those scriptures tell us how best to love God. I guess, we could also ask, how do we love anyone? Give them of our time, and endear ourselves to them, through an openness of connection to them, by not hurting them intentionally, but connecting to them with understanding.

@innertalks I agree.

Yes, when we follow God's will, in obedience to him, as well as his commandments generally, his love wells up in us then too. We can do God's will, if his love is allowed to well up inside of us, by our loving God as much as we can do so. If we retreat to the darkness of our mind, in our own cave of iniquity, we have lost contact then with the true light, always shining for us in our hearts then too. We need to stay heart people, and never retreat too deeply just into our minds, and so neglect our heart connection, by our so doing.

I think that most people can feel truth, and when we talk about God, and love, it is usually well-received here. Yes, I know that's how you live, and have lived your life. Being true to yourself, is being true to God, and our origins, and future, will take care of themselves, if we live our lives that way, from love, and without the borders (of our minds, held in place by our minds) ever cutting off any of that love from us, around us, or coming to us, or leaving from us too.

@Shiva49 Yes, that makes sense that we would have God sitting on our shoulder all of the time with that inner voice, the problem is that the tempter, Satan, sometimes wants to sit on our other shoulder, and whisper sweet nothings into our ear for us to follow, instead of God's voice.

@innertalks I live that way 24/7 and I have inner warning signals when I tend to stray even through thoughts. The inner voice is the prompt and that I feel is connected to our creator himself and comes with a homing instinct. We come as a total package to get it right here.

Yes, we should not try to use our spiritual gifts without love being attached to them; they become weapons of pride then instead.

Thanks. Our church day is tomorrow. That quote about one God, came from an American Indian, so wisdom/truth can be found in many places. Everybody can be inspired to speak wisely at times.

@innertalks Yes, and I also like the way Indians respect nature.

@innertalks Yes, I have read that too. I thought all Indians are the same in respecting nature or the environment.