TALK
LOUDER, GOD

Topics: Devil; Hearing God; Holy Spirit; Listening; Obedience; Sin; Temptation

References: 2 Corinthians 4:3–6; Galatians 5:16–25; James 1:13–15; 4:7; 1 Peter 5:8–9

Barbara, five, had disobeyed me and was sent to her room. After a few minutes, I went in to talk with her about what she had done. Teary-eyed, she asked, “Why do we do wrong things, Mommy?”

“Sometimes the Devil tells us to do something wrong, and we listen to him,” I said. “We need to listen to God instead.”

“But God doesn’t talk loud enough!” she wailed.

—Jo M. Guerrero, Christian Reader (September–October 1996)