Thoughts on God's timing & ways of communicating
Does God speak to us directly? I'd say yes to that. For most of my life, I was taught that God ONLY speaks through the scriptures and that you can apply it to yourself as a general message -- but don't get too specific otherwise you can go "too far". And I get that. I've heard all sorts of things from people that I'd say were above and beyond making sense, especially when people would just make statements about things that aren't even talked about in scripture. For the most part, I still agree God doesn't "speak to you" in ways that'll disagree with ideas in scripture. He's not gonna say, "Go steal from your neighbor who has those things you want" or things like that. And I would say, from my own experience, he's not going to part the clouds and speak like you see in pop culture -- like when God speaks to Homer Simpson or to Moses or things like that. But he DOES, again in my experience, show us things we want and/or ...