Communication

31 May 2012      

 

James 4:2-3 You desire and do not have; so you kill. And you covet and cannot obtain; so you fight and wage war. You do not have, because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.

Good communication ensures that the message that is transferred is accurate and understood by the person you are communicating with.  Some of us are better able to communicate than others, maybe because of experience, or that some people hear but do not listen. An example of this is when you have plenty nails in the store and a person needs a nails to complete a job, instead of asking for nails, they spend an hour scratching and straightening rusted nails, and then give up and use incorrect screws. All they had to do was ask and they would have received what they asked for.

I suppose in the same way, most of us are poor communicators when it comes to conversations with God our heavenly Father, we receive not because we ask not.  Each of us are on this earth with a God-given purpose, and God knowing that knows what we need even before we ask. We still need to ask, because God loves to be conversation with us. I know many of get so busy doing it on our own that we forget to include God in our plans, and we just carry on without talking to Him. It is like a husband coming home, so involved in his own thoughts that he stops talking in the house, so in a way excluding his wife from his inner conversation. We should all become more conscious of how we communicate.

Be encouraged today to ask for what you need, it may surprise you what you get.

 

David

 

Point to ponder: If you do not ask, you do not get.

Question to consider: How good are you at communicating your needs?