Hearing the voice of God is not hard if you are able to live in the moment. Yahweh is a now time God. He does not dwell on the past, He is not afraid of the future, so He is a continual ever present help in times of trouble. He is a now time God. Since Christ is in us and we are the temple of the Holy Spirit, that means we must calibrate our cadence to that of the God who lives in now time. This takes a dying to ourself, a trusting in God, and a realization that He alone holds everything in His hands. Once you access the “now” in time, it changes everything as it pertains to hearing God’s voice. He speaks in now moments, no matter where you are or what you may be doing. We miss His voice not because we can’t hear it, but because we are living in a different time zone than He is. Come out of the time zone called past, come out of the time zone called future and come into the time zone called now and you will hear the voice of God in now time.

This morning I was walking my dog and his name is Hunter and he is a Dachshund. We walk every morning and today the Holy Spirit had me pause and watch him as he had his nose to the ground, then in a hole, tail straight in the air, waving it so I knew he found something. Next thing you know he is digging, snorting and is in pursuit of the mole in that hole. As I stood there smiling at my dog, the Holy Spirit said, “This is how you enter into another’s joy.” I pondered that for the rest of my walk.

We enter into other people’s joy, sorrow, victories, challenges, by living in the moment with them. It was not about me doing the digging or snorting or wagging of the tail, but knowing Hunter was having the time of his little doggie life, made me smile. Then the Holy Spirit said, “This is how you enter in!” Friends, we are being invited to enter in to other people’s joy, sorrow, challenges, victories. Enter in with them and know we can also enter into the Lord’s joy. Matthew says it best in chapter 25 “He who had received the five talents came forward, bringing five talents more, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me five talents; here, I have made five talents more.’ His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.”

Friends the invitation is to enter in!