09/09/2026
I WASN’T TALKING TO YOU
When Your Mouth Is on Earth, but the Conversation Is in Heaven�
Have you ever walked into a room and heard somebody talking, and because you heard your name, or heard something that sounded like it concerned you, you jumped into the conversation? And they looked at you and said: “I wasn’t talking to you.”
That will straighten you up quick. Because you suddenly realize something: just because you could hear the conversation didn’t mean you were the intended audience. You heard it.
But it wasn’t addressed to you. You were close enough to hear the sound, but you weren’t the destination of the words. And I wonder if sometimes we do the same thing when somebody starts speaking in tongues. We hear their mouth moving. We hear syllables we don’t. recognize. We hear sounds our natural mind cannot organize. And because we don’t understand it, we assume nothing meaningful is being said. But Paul says, you made one mistake. YOU THOUGHT THE CONVERSATION WAS FOR YOU.
For he that speaketh in an unknown tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God…
~ 1 Corinthians 14:2