No Hem-Haw

My boys thought they were so clever!  Whenever I asked a question, they would sometimes repeat the question back to me which [I learned] was a sneaky way of delaying the answer.  After much “hem and haw,” they eventually answered me revealing only as much information as they wanted to.  Clever, yes, but their Mama caught on quickly!

Often when God speaks to us, we [too] pretend some sort of spiritual deafness.  Well, God is neither amused nor ignorant.  “And when the LORD saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I.” (Exodus 3:4)  There are times we can honestly admit we don’t hear God, and usually it’s because we aren’t listening; other times, we’re waiting on His call to something extravagant unwilling to answer to otherwise obscure tasks. Being ready means … being ready!  Oswald Chambers refers to the burning bush as “a symbol of everything that surrounds the ready soul.”  We are called to “whatsoever” and to “do it heartily, as to the Lord.” (Colossians 3:23)  To “hem and haw” is to pause a lot and avoid saying something directly.  When will we stop such spiritual stuttering and simply say [like Moses], “Here am I.”  When we do – watch God work in our lives; He doesn’t hem-haw around!