I thanked her and said, “You’re right! I’ve got mail and friends you’ve got mail, too.” God has a message for you.

In our fast paced technological age, we have many ways of receiving mail, such as voice mail, e-mail, and the US mail. I find, though, that unless I check my mail, none of these conveyances will do me any good.

How many times does God speak to us, letting us know that we have mail from Him? Many people are too busy to check their God mail. Some simply ignore or turn a deaf ear to the voice of God. Friend, you’ve got mail. God is constantly speaking to the world and to you.

God speaks in many different ways. He speaks through nature. His magnificent creation leaves us without excuse to believe in God. (See Romans 1:17-21.) Sometimes God will use nature to give us a wake-up call. He did so with my friend Shirpa, who spent three days buried up to his waist in ash and debris after Mt. St. Helen’s erupted.

God spoke His love and care by raven express when He provided food twice a day to the prophet Elijah in the desert. (See I Kings 17.) God spoke judgement to King Belshazzar, who profaned the holy vessels used in the temple, by drinking wine out of them at his drunken orgy. His knees knocked together in fright as he saw God’s handwriting on the wall – “God has numbered your kingdom and it is finished. You are weighed in the balances and are found wanting” (Daniel 5).

God speaks to us in many different ways – in visions, dreams, and through circumstances. God speaks through our conscience. Conscience is God’s built in warning system. Be very happy when it hurts you. Be very worried when it doesn’t. God speaks through His still small voice within us. He speaks through signs and wonders, through the counsel of godly friends, and through the preaching of His Word.

The most frequent and sure way that God speaks is through the Bible – His Holy Word. The Bible is not a dead letter, but the living, authoritative, infallible Word of God. “All scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness” (II Timothy 3:16). Have you checked your God mail lately? Someone once said, “I don’t have so much trouble hearing from God as I do in obeying God.” Jesus said a wise man is one who not only hears the Word but does the Word (Matthew 7:24).

God spoke to Moses and John the Baptist in the wilderness (Luke 3:2). It’s in the wilderness experience that God’s voice usually comes to us. It’s in the wilderness that God can get our undivided attention.

In times past God spoke through many different times and means. But now God “has in these last days spoken unto us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, by whom also He made the worlds – who – when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high” (Hebrews 1:1-3).

God’s greatest message to the world and to you was when Jesus said, “This is how much I love you.” He then stretched out His arms on the cross and died for your sins and my sins.

You’ve got mail. God is speaking. “Wherefore as the Holy Ghost speaks, ‘Today if you will hear His voice, harden not your hearts. Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing, from the living God” (Hebrews 3:7-12).

Be sure to answer your God mail.

A - Admit you have sinned. “For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.” Romans 3:23

B – Believe in Jesus. “For God so loved the world that he gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” John 3:16

C - Confess and leave your sins. “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us form al unrighteousness.” 1 John 1:9-10