Ventriloquists

I love watching ventriloquists perform. They are so good that I am convinced that the puppet is actually speaking. It is amazing how the ventriloquist can change voices so quickly and give the puppet personality at the same time.

Perhaps I am enamored with these performances because I have such difficulty speaking to others. I don’t have a speech defect. It’s just that my brain seems to get locked up and I don’t know how to say what I want to say. I often wind up saying things more dramatically than I intend. It makes me not want to speak at all.

Does any of this ever happen to you? Fortunately it doesn’t happen to me when I am talking to God. Even though I am talking to Almighty God when I pray, the Bible says that I can come to Him with confidence through the shed blood of Jesus. Furthermore, I have the promise of Roman’s 8:26, which says, “Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groaning too deep for words.” The Holy Spirit knows my heart and can speak to the Father for me, no matter bow awkward my words seem to be.