God-guided Conversations

Nathan then said to David, "You are the man!” 2 Samuel 12:7 (New American Standard Bible)

The prophet, Nathan, was sent to David with a specific message concerning David’s sin. For close to a year, David harbored a “secret” of great proportion. He had committed adultery as well as murder. As far as he was concerned, no one but Bathsheba knew of the adultery. The murder was not even known by her. Nathan was used of God to pinpoint those very things to David. He had no trouble determining that Nathan had been sent to him by God with a message meant for his ears and David’s response was Psalm 51.

While I have never had the experience of having a person sent to me to reveal a “hidden” sin, I have known what it was like to talk with someone and have them pinpoint an area in my life that God was dealing with. Yesterday, I went to talk with a friend. We had set up a time for this talk and yet I wasn’t sure what we were going to talk about. She has been helping me wade through some issues but none of those issues were needing to be discussed. On the way to her house I simply asked God to guide our conversation. THAT is exactly what He did.

We talked for about thirty minutes on various things and then the conversation took a turn. Within moments she brought up a subject that God had been dealing with me in and she had NO idea the hugeness of it. As a matter of fact, as she began to pinpoint this area she wasn’t sure how I was going to receive her words but knew instinctively that she was to say what she said. I was receptive but stunned at the realization that THIS was going to be our God-guided conversation. I saw both the message and the messenger as being from Him and that made it easier to receive what was being said. Her coffee table became an altar of prayer for us and I walked away shaking my head in amazement at how God works. Last year another person had tried to tell me the same things but it has taken this long for me to finally be receptive. God has been graciously patient.

I count it precious that He would carve out a time for a conversation in order to once again target a place of needed change in my life. I now head into a new week with a sense of expectancy over what He will be doing to bring about that change. He has already promised me the grace to walk in obedience and given me the desire to do it. Since I know that His ways and thoughts are higher than my own, I know the end of this story is bound to be amazing!

Father, You have spoken clearly to me through the mouth of a friend….AGAIN. I thank you for the message given and Your presence that goes with me into this area of change. Amen.