Hearing the Voice of God Today

 God has a way of speaking very precisely. It is like a jigsaw puzzle. When you put the pieces together, they fit perfectly to make a picture, so you know it is God speaking.

It was April in Australia. It was a cool cloudy autumn day. Suddenly a lovely song came to my mind. It was an English Christmas carol. I felt it was from God because I was looking forward to a mission trip to Germany at Christmastime.

I was thinking of Germany, so why would God speak to me through an English Christmas carol?

“Hark the herald angels sing. Glory to the newborn king.”

I could not get the song out of my mind. God was speaking, so when I got home I did some research on the internet.

The words to the song were written in England but the music was written by Felix Mendelssohn in Leipzig. The before the English words were written, it was a German patriotic song!

My sheep hear my voice, I know them, and they follow me. Jn 10:27 CSB

Vaterland, in deinen Gauen
brach der goldne Tag einst an.
Deutschland, deine Völker sahn
seinen Schimmer niedertauen.
Gutenberg, der deutsche Mann,
zündete die Fackel an.

Fatherland, in your shires
the golden day once dawned.
Germany, your peoples saw
its shimmer bring a thaw.
Gutenberg, the German man,
kindled the torch.

It was Gutenberg who invented the European printing press, which laid the foundation for the publishing of the Bible in modern languages. It was the launching pad for the revival of Biblical Christianity.

Mendelssohn was also a Jew. In our generation, there are so many Jews coming to recognise Jesus as their Messiah.

And what does this message mean to me? My calling is to share the message of Jesus by writing on the internet, another new invention for the publishing of the gospel.

What is your calling? Let God speak to you as He spoke to me.