God's Voice

I went to a few of my friends here recently and asked them, "What's the key to any healthy relationship?"

You want to know what each and every single one of them responded with?

"Communication."

I think generally everyone can agree that active communication is vital in all relationships, whether it be with a romantic interest, a parent, or a college roommate. And quite frankly, I think the same goes for our relationship with The Lord as well.

So often I hear people saying that their relationship with Christ is very one sided. They pray, pray, pray, but never hear back from God.

If you're anything like me, "hearing God's voice" or "Does God still speak to us?" has been in your google search history at some point in time because let's be honest, we get really frustrated and feel incredibly disheartened the very moment when we don't feel God near or when we feel like God is not speaking to us immediately upon our request.

We know that God is our Friend and our Father, so just think about that for a second.

What if your best friend decided to never speak to you again but still wanted to be your friend? Would you really consider that a good friendship? What if you encountered a dad that has never even spoke to his daughter? Would you consider him to be a good father? I think we can safely say that the answer would be no to both of those questions.

So why is it that we think God (our perfect Friend and Father) does not communicate with us?

I also hear people saying that think God can only speak to them through the Bible. It's ironic, because Scripture tells us quite the opposite. I do believe that God primarily uses the Scriptures to speak to us, but I do not think that it is His only way of communicating with His children.

Read the stories in the Bible. Look at Moses, Abraham, Hagar, David, Ananias, and the many others God spoke to in the Bible. The list can go on and on.

I'm sure many of you are thinking, "Well, yeah but that was then. This is now." Yeah, you're right, but why would God give us these beautiful and hope-instilling stories in His Word and then say, "I don't talk to my children that way anymore."

To claim that God does not speak to His children like that anymore is simply unbiblical.

The Bible clearly calls us The Lord's sheep, and it names Jesus Christ as our Shepherd. Numerous times we are told that the only way to follow the Shepherd is to hear His voice.

Listen for His voice today. Ask The Lord to speak to you in new ways and to teach you to listen for His "still small voice" because He DOES speak to us if we choose to hear Him.