Heavenly Interruptions

 

 

Heavenly Interruptions

 “How did you manage to deliver the message of Christ in that remote island?” I overhead the eager youth ask the missionary. 

“I heard the voice of the LORD, saying: ‘Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us?’”Isaiah 6:8

The soft spoken missionary responded, “We were constantly interrupted by the natives and they could not seem to sit still a minute and listen to us.  It was becoming impossible to talk with them. Then we discovered something more affective and easier than one could ever imagine. Things began to move forward at a rapid pace when we allowed God to interrupt our plans and go with His. Suddenly everyone wanted to know who we were and why we were doing these nice things for them.  How did we deliver the Message? Quite simply, we listened to God and delivered His message with our hands and feet.”

 When the compassion of Christ is seen, things happen, something moves, and sometimes that takes heavenly interruptions.

Do we feel a little more interrupted lately? Just when we are set to a task, some work we feel important and imperative to the Lord, does it all come to halt and get insanely interrupted?  Do we feel it in our spirit that God is trying to get our attention?

 The call of God is not a personal desire, or an emotional pressing in. It’s in our measure of time and effort to be in a right relationship with Him. That’s when things begin to happen, when lives are changed, ours lives right along with others.  

 God will interrupt our plans when He is about to do something in our lives to change the lives of others. Perhaps those interruptions lately are God’s way of getting our attention. He is calling us, even tugging at our heart strings to stop going our way and begin moving closer to Him and doing it His way, in His time. 

“The majority of us cannot hear anything but ourselves. And we cannot hear anything God says. But to be brought to the place where we can hear the call of God is to be profoundly changed.” —Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest, January 16.

“Heavenly Interruptions” RV by Dee Kamp, Grace Every Morning Ministries© September 3, 2014