Its funny to me how I assume that God is not speaking to me.  I feel as though I lead a one sided conversation with Him.  I talk and talk, never to hear a reply form the Lord.  I must first say that I have had encounters with the living God where He has spoken quite clearly to me in a still small voice.  Its just recently, I have been hearing nothing.  I just finished reading in Hosea about Israel “whoring” against the Lord.  I myself am that whore.  I know that I have put many things and my own ambitions in the place of God, an idol if you will.  After all this, I still would wonder why I didn’t hear what He was saying.  I took some time tonight just sitting after asking the Lord to speak to me.  I was quiet and unoccupied.  I made an effort to be still and not think.  If  you know me at all, you know it was extremely hard for me to do.  I had asked the Lord to forgive me of whoring and having the idols of my desires, my plans, and well my stubbornness.  I sat.  I waited.  He spoke.  It was a gentle correction, but He indeed spoke.  It hit me hard because it was so simple, yet so complex.  He said all I have do is be obedient.  Obedience keeps us from whoring.  Pretty simple right?  How about complication in a simple term.  However, all I have to do is be obedient.  That’s an easier list to look at than a long list of things I need to do and things I can’t.  I would much rather have a simple “to do list” that reads: 1. Be Obedient.  That’s all that’s on my list everyday. I guess I must say that I am stoked and relieved that the Lord spoke to me even if it was gentle correction.  I realize that I am so busy talking, that I REALLY don’t listen. Be still.