In the movie Color Purple, there is a song that was a hit on stage with choirs everywhere. The title of the song is “God is Trying to Tell You Something.” The scene entails a young women, the daughter of a preacher that had a beautiful voice, and she went into the worldly night clubs to sing. Then one day she was singing Blues outside at a lake near her Dad’s church. During the Church service, one of the old mothers leaned over and said to tell the Choir to sing, “God is Trying to Tell You Something” while the Dad was preaching that God has a way to drive you back home. When a young girl in the choir started to sing, her voice carried across the lake, drowning out the Pastor’s daughter, in so much that the Pastor’s daughter could sing no more. Everybody stopped their activities, looking at her, wondering why she had stopped singing. Then suddenly the Pastor’s daughter began to sing the same she heard the choir sing, beginning to walk towards the Church on the other side of the lake. She was singing with joy as everybody from the club followed behind her. They eventually reach the Church door and interjected with singing loudly along with the choir. The daughter came face to face with her Daddy and ran up to hug him tightly, and said in his ear, “See Daddy, sinners have soul too,” with tears.
Now this leads me to the song that was sung, “God is Trying to Tell You Something.” It’s not just a song, but it was one form of communication through which God was trying to speak with or reach an individual. God has been trying to talk to all of us in multiple ways:
- 1. Through other people
- 2. Through dreams
- 3. By the words of the Bible (KJV)
- 4. Through events in one’s life whether Good or bad tragedies
When all your efforts or hard work on a thing get worse or even fail, it’s sometimes hard to know when Jesus is trying to talk to you, when you are full of you.
There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
Proverbs 14:12
Sometime as people we can’t see reasoning when we are looking at it from unrealistic or unreasonable mindsets. That is why one can’t talk to a hungry person about anything until that person has been given what they need.
14 What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him? 15 If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, 16 And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit? 17 Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone. 18 Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works.
James 2:14-18
Why try to gain the things of this life that fad away like flowers or 3 day old pizza? You know the pizza has sat out in a box for a few days and has grown mold on it, or you left it at the back of the refrigerator for a couple days and it become harder and inedible. I think we all can attest to that. But the question you must ask yourself is this: how much does your soul mean to you?
14 What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him? 15 If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, 16 And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit? 17 Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone. 18 Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works.
James 2:14-18
Last, the Word of God says this:
15 While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.
Hebrews 3:15
And it is so!
