Shocking Experience

“ … if they do speak not according to this word …”  (Isa 8:20  KJV)

I am sure that like me, you have had some life changing moments with the Lord. I mean a time where He stopped you in your tracks, and put you on a different track. One morning this happened to me while having some quiet time with the Lord. I was reading out of Isaiah chapter 8 and got to verse 20 which says: 

“To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.”

I got kind of stirred up over this verse and got to talking to the Lord. I was saying things sort of like “Yeah, that’s right Lord, there are a whole lot of people out there not speaking in accordance with your word. They are saying a lot of things that don’t agree with Your word.”

Now about this time I’m expecting a “Yeah, you got it, you understand!  You know what I am talking about!”  What I got was something like “You say a lot of things that are not in accordance with My word.”

Well, to say I was shocked would be an understatement. I was kind of devastated. I had been confronted by God and I was guilty, I knew it and I knew it all in an instant. I was filled with remorse and repented right then and there.  I was so convicted and so sorrowful that a lot of what I said was not in accordance with, not in agreement with, did not line up with, and was not guided by the Word of God.

That was a life changing moment for me. It began a change in me that affected the words I spoke, the advice I gave, and is hopefully still causing me to do more thinking and listening then speaking.

It is good for me to return to this verse now and then and let God continue to speak to me with it. Our mouths speak out of what is in our hearts. Our hearts need to be filled with the Word of God, so that what we speak is in accordance with, in agreement with, and in like purpose with His word.