Every morning when I pray The Lord’s Prayer, I ask that God’s kingdom come and God’s will be done in my life for that day. On a recent occasion, I felt the Holy Spirit gently asking me to pause and add “Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening” and “Here am I, Lord, I come to do your will.” Maybe Samuel and Isaiah were pulling for me that morning. And so I waited.
In the silence that followed, I finally sensed the Lord saying, “Listen for my voice, and watch for what I am doing.” With those words came the image of the Good Shepherd. As part of His flock, He was asking me to stay close enough to hear Him when he speaks. The words of Psalm 123 also came to mind: “as the eyes of servants are on the hands of their masters…so are our eyes on the Lord, our God.”
