Well, good morning, Greg. You're ready to get started.

Good morning, Amy. I am.

All right. Here is a question from Grace.

Would you characterize not being able to stop thinking about something as God speaking. Example, doing something wrong and need to stop or needing to do something like apologize, pray, or check in with someone, or even a verse that keeps coming to mind?

Okay. I'm going to make a distinction here, and this may be for some people a distinction

without a difference, but I think it's an important difference.

I would not characterize it as God's speaking to me, all right, because that way of phrasing

it implies a certain, two things, a certain phenomenology.

And in other words, a certain characteristic of the way the experience is being experienced,

all right?

And like God is saying something.

Now, it may be that what the person means is that God is hinting something, you know,

or that God is trying to influence me in a certain way regarding that thing.

So this phrase, God is speaking to me, could cover a lot of things, and therefore

it's kind of ambiguous. And so that's one concern. And the other is that I have complete confidence

that God can get what he wants done in our lives through all sorts of

influences. So it may be that there's something that, you know, in his sovereign purposes,

he wants to focus in on my life. And so this passage keeps coming to mind. I don't have to

try to divine the source. Where is that coming from? Is that God? I better pay attention to it.

But if I can't figure out if it's God or not, maybe I could just ignore it. Those are all questions

that are not even relevant. You don't need to ask them. And by the way, I don't think anybody

would have asked those in an era in the past when this kind of thing wasn't a received tradition.

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