“Sumting Tell Me… or Was It God?”


Tonight, leaving church after watching Heaven’s Gates, Hell’s Flames, I had one of those moments that many of us from Barbados would describe in a very familiar way.

You know the phrase.

“Sumting tell me…”
or
“My mind tell me…”

If you’re Bajan, you’ve heard it a thousand times.

But let me tell you what happened tonight.

As I was driving home, I felt a very clear instruction: Do not pass the vehicle in front of you. Stay behind it all the way home.

Now, if you know me, you know I’m not exactly the slow-driver type mind you I wont speed either but some drivers do test your patience and the best way to avoid an accident is to be a distance in front of them or a distance back and definitely NOT Next to them. If the road opens up, I’m usually gone so they don't block me if they crash. But tonight, the instruction was so clear that I simply obeyed.

So I stayed behind the vehicle.

The entire way home.

And while I was driving, I started to chuckle to myself because I realized something. If I told most people this story, they would say:

“Boy, sumting tell you not to pass.”
or
“Your mind tell you stay behind that car.”

But let me say something plainly.

Sometimes “sumting” is actually God.

We’ve become so comfortable using those casual words that we’ve almost trained ourselves not to acknowledge the voice behind them.

We say:

  • “Sumting tell me don’t go there.”

  • “My mind tell me don’t trust that person.”

  • “Sumting tell me turn back.”

But very rarely do we say:

“God told me.”

Why?

Because admitting that makes it real.

And reality comes with responsibility.

After watching Heaven’s Gates, Hell’s Flames tonight, the message hit even deeper. That production is a wake-up call. It reminds you that life is not just random moments strung together. There is purpose. There is guidance. And yes, there is a voice that speaks.

The real question is:

Are we listening?

Many of us used to listen when we were younger. Before life got noisy. Before pride got loud. Before logic convinced us that everything had to make perfect sense.

But somewhere along the way, we started dismissing that voice.

We call it:

  • coincidence

  • instinct

  • intuition

  • “sumting”

  • “my mind”

Anything except what it might actually be.

God speaking.

Now let me be clear. Not every thought in our head is divine instruction. We are human. Our minds run wild sometimes.

But if you’ve lived long enough, you know the difference between a random thought and that quiet, firm instruction that comes out of nowhere.

The one that says:

“Don’t go there.”

“Call that person.”

“Turn back.”

“Wait.”

And tonight I was reminded that obedience doesn’t always come with an explanation. I don’t know why I was told to stay behind that vehicle. Maybe nothing would have happened if I passed. Or maybe something would have.

I don’t need to know.

Obedience doesn’t require understanding.

It just requires trust.

So this post is a small wake-up call.

To those who used to listen but stopped.

To those who feel the nudges but brush them off.

To those who still say “sumting tell me” but never stop to ask who that “sumting” might actually be.

Maybe tonight it’s time to start paying attention again.

Because sometimes the voice we casually dismiss as “my mind”…

…is actually God trying to guide us.

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