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Do you feel that your life is becoming more and more hectic, uncertain, even threatening in some way? Could it be that God is attempting to get you attention?

Many years ago a motion picture was produced with the title "Gentle Persuasion". As I recall, the basic theme illustrated the loving patience of someone with another who only needed love and gentle guidance.

There is a fllipside story of a rancher who wanted to sell one of his horses that, for him, had out lived his usefulness. A potential buyer looked the horse over, and decided he would purchase the horse for the price asked. The buyer began to lead the horse away, but the horse would not budge no matter how hard the new owner pulled him, where upon he accused the seller of selling him a blind horse. The seller replied, "no, no, no..he's OK.. you just need get his attention first". Whereupon the seller hit the horse over the head.

The horse began to walk gently with the buyer.

Sometimes it seems that God must get our attention the hard way. He would much rather convince us through gentle persuasion, without hitting us where it hurts. Some events in your life are constructed to get your attention. Nothing can be taught until the attention is obtained first.

If you are hard hearted, God knows how to get your attention. He will do it gently if at all possible. However, eternal life is such an important issue that He will get your attention in the best way, the way that will be most successful way.

Some respond to gentle persuasion. Others require something else.

There are numerous examples available in the Bible of the different levels of attention-getter options that God has used in the past. One of the most well known is the method that Jesus used to get Paul's attention, by striking him blind and speaking to him while he was on a journey.

Not all events in our life are designed to simply to get out attention. Many other events, other people whose lives intersect ours in some way, etc.,Christ may use to encourage us, or give us an opportunity to manifest the spiritual values we hold; or simply an opportunity to perform good works, or to encourage someone who is really down for some reason.

Once God has your attention, He will lead you according to His will in your life. Trust Him. Trust Him every moment of every day of every year. No matter what kind of life He may have designed for you, trust Him. He is interested in one thing: having you in His kingdom, living forever in joy, love, and peace.

If you are yielded to Him completely, you can expect gentle persuasion. It will not be difficult for Him to get your attention. If life for you seems to have changed drastically, it could be God is testing you on some issue or point in your life. A test perhaps of your endurance in some way. Or there is a sin in your life that He wants to draw your attention to.

Regardless of what may be the reason, pray for the attitude He desires for you to have. First of all, TRUST HIM. Then examine your life in prayer, seeking His revelation of any issues that need correcting in your life. Be patient, trusting, and yielded to whatever He may eventually reveal. Do not set a time limit for this. God works in mysterious ways sometimes. Give yourself time for patience - His and yours - to work. God loves you. All His dealings with you represent His love for you.

Remember the road sign: YIELD. It is important in life - and on the road.

" For in [this] hope we were saved. But hope [the object of] which is seen is not hope. For how can one hope for what he already sees? But if we hope for what is still unseen by us, we wait for it with patience and composure. So too the [Holy] Spirit comes to our aid and bears us up in our weakness; for we do not know what prayer to offer nor how to offer it worthily as we ought, but the Spirit Himself goes to meet our supplication and pleads in our behalf with unspeakable yearnings and groanings too deep for utterance." - Romans 8:24-26

"Voice of Inspiration" from Andy Castro

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