Hello Everyone,
When God speaks we can be sure it is God speaking.The Scripture tells us that when God spoke to Moses through the burning bush, he had no question about the fact that God was the one speaking. We also can recognize the voice of God.
"He goes on ahead of them, and His sheep follow Him because they know His voice," - John 10:4 (NIV)If I have trouble hearing God’s voice, then I either do not belong to God or I am not right with God!
In Luke 11:33-36, Jesus speaks about the key to spiritual perception. Having just spoken about the spiritual blindness of His generation in verses 29-32, Jesus speaks to the question of whose fault it is when there is a lack of spiritual perception.

He teaches us that the key to spiritual perception is a heart that is pure. “No one lights a lamp and puts it in a place where it will be hidden, or under a bowl. Instead he puts it on its stand, so that those who come in may see the light. Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eyes are good, your whole body also is full of light. But when they are bad, your body also is full of darkness. See to it, then, that the light within you is not darkness. Therefore, if your whole body is full of light, and no part of it dark, it will be completely lighted, as when the light of a lamp shines on you.” - Luke 11:33-36 (NIV) As our Lord said in Matthew 5:8, "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." Jesus tells us that...
Lack of spiritual perception is not God’s fault - v. 33
One of the purposes of light is to help you find your way in the dark. So when you light a dark room, you place your lamp in a high place, like a lamp stand, so that it might provide as much light as possible.So when it comes to God revealing Himself to us He does not hide Himself from us, but works to reveal Himself to us.Lack of spiritual perception is our fault - vs. 34-36Jesus tells us that our eyes work to help us maneuver around. If, our eyes go bad, then everything goes dark and we are left to stumble around.He then goes on to speak about the heart ("the light within you" - v. 35) as being the organ by which we discern spiritual light.

If, however, our hearts have become darkened, then we are left without spiritual perception, condemned to wander in spiritual darkness. Paul speaks of this in Ephesians 4:18 (KJV) – ("blindness of the heart").How does this hardness develop? It develops from time after time of choosing to not walk in the light we have received.

God has established a law in the universe that governs man’s spiritual relationship with God.

“Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows.” - Galatians 6:7 (NIV) If one sows rejection of God’s light, he will reap spiritual blindness; but if he sows reception of God’s light, he will reap spiritual perception.If I am traveling in my car at night with my headlights on, they will only shine so far in front of my car. But they shine far enough to let me know where I am to go, and when I have traveled that distance, my headlights then shine that much further down the road to let me know where to go next.

So it is with the guidance of God. We walk in what light He has given us today, knowing that as we do, there will be more light tomorrow.“We walk in the light as He is in the light . . .” - 1 John 1:7 (NIV)

Oh How HE Loves Us!
Pastor Phil