chrissietina-marie’s thoughts

I went to a new hair girl last night (Emili – M’s at Sola Salon couty line and quebec). I needed a color and cut in a desperate way (3 months is WAAAAAY to long when you’re hair is shorter) and the normal hair girl is having some health issues. So after P Jill had a hair emergency last Thursday and Kate reccomended her girl I thought I’d try her too. Why not?!

Now those who know me know I’ve had my hair about every possible color and hairstyle possible. The last time I was blonde it wasn’t good… I wasn’t supposed to be that blonde. She left them in too long and I was Gwen Stefani blonde. (No there aren’t any pics of that short phase of my life). I was a little hesitant to do blonde again, but I thought “what the heck. It’s just hair. I can grow it out.” SOOO I’m blonde now. You’ll have to see me Sunday to check it out and if you don’t like it please keep it to yourself 🙂

I’ve actually know this for a while. God doesn’t need someone else to speak for him 99% of the time. Most of the time we’re just trying to be nosey and butt in where we don’t belong or get on our soapbox to share our opinions and use God’s name to do it. (Ouch- was that too harsh?) I’ve grown very cautious about saying to anyone “I think God is saying this.” I know the havoc that can reek in someone’s life if that’s really not what God is saying and that’s using God name in vain!! Giving “thus sayeth the Lord” when it’s not God or when you use it as a manipulation tool to get someone to do what you want you are operating out of witchcraft. That’s Satan’s area of expertise. He twists things to benefit him. I do my best to not do this to anyone because I know how much trouble it causes. So if I’ve ever done this to anyone please forgive me! I apologize truly and sincerely.

Let me make my balancing statement: I realize that God does use people to speak to you, but it should confirm what you already know from God not tell you a new direction.  As long as you have a consistent relationship with God and are seeking him there’s no reason that He would have to tell someone else to tell you something new. If you’re walking tight with God I believe there will be very few times when God uses other people to speak to you. It’d be easier for him to just tell you himself (in my opinion he prefers this method. Direct communication is always better than 2nd hand or 3rd hand). However, if you know God is bugging you to say something to someone, by all means do it. You’ll be disobendient if you don’t.

So when this concept of I can hear God all by myself is actually played out in my life it’s quite funny and slightly entertaining I think. I have a little comic on my computer screen that has these two little girls talking and one says to the other “I can talk to God whenever and wherever I want to and I don’t get a busy signal.” The other girl is holding a cell phone waiting for someone. This is my reminder of John 10:4-5.

“My sheep know my voice and the voice of a stranger they will not follow.”

Some people, no matter how old you get, will feel the need to be the voice of God in your life. It takes maturity and lots of practice to lovingly say that “I appreciate your opinion, but I have my own relationship God and that’s not what He’s telling me to do now. I love you, but I disagree at this point.” It also takes maturity to realize taht for most people their motives are pure in their eyes. It’s because they love you. This has been a reoccuring theme in my life this last year and I am looking forward to having practiced it enough times that I won’t even blink when saying I disagree with a “thus sayeth the Lord.”