The Voice

A Word is a medium by which thoughts and ideas are expressed into an understandable format among humanity. 

As such, it is a comfort to know that God is speaking to us; He has spoken and does speak personally to every person who knows Him personally.
God's voice to the human race carries with it a 'cause & effect' mode into our lives. 
For example, the Bible states in Genesis, 'God spoke...and it was so.'

Without this speaking of God, mankind would have no revelation of God whatsoever. 

Unlike other faiths, God did not give us a book to learn of Him → God spoke a book which revealed Himself to all who will trust Him.

We also learn through this that God's Word to humanity is final; when man disobeyed God, we were condemned to return to the dust from which we were formed. 
It is here the finality of God's Word is revealed because all men experience the finality of death.

One of the great tragedies of our time within the Christian world is the fact that our welfare depends greatly on our hearing the voice of God; yet, we have trained ourselves not to hear Him.
In one place in God's Word, when God speaks the description is in human terms - 'It Thundered.'
This is an appeal to the natural to describe something we are not use to hearing although He is constantly speaking through His Spirit and through His creation to His creatures who choose to remain deaf.

The truth of the matter is that every Christian has events in their life that they are not able to understand, nor explain. And some things occur that are contrary to all which we have learned.
Yet, the true believer does not need to always understand.
Although when it comes to God we often fear His voice as our first reaction; no person needs to fear because God's voice is a friendly voice.

Jesus said, 'He who has an ear, let him hear...'
And it is true, whoever chooses to listen will hear Him.

Sadly, listening for God's voice is not a part of today's popular religion.
Noise, size, activities and bluster are the things that are taught which make a man dear to God's heart.
This being true - the Christian is caught in an awkward place because God teaches us to, 'Be still and know that I am God.'
Therefore, our strength in the Spirit and our safety in Christ lie not within noise, but in silence before the throne.
For God says to our hearts that it is still important that we are quiet, patient and wait on Him to speak.

It is often said the Bible is a Living Book. 
Charles Spurgeon once declared of the Bible, 'You can cut this book into a thousand pieces and every piece would grow and live.' 
He was right.

Yet, the Bible will never be living to us personally until the individual is convinced that god has articulated in it His truths for the universe.
Most believe that the Bible is a record of what God said when He was in a speaking mood; the Koran is a believed to be a revelation of such nature, being dictated to Muhammad. 
I wonder when a person holds such a notion, how can they be a true believer at all?

God is not silent at any time;Never. 
It is in His nature to speak and He does speak to His children as often as we choose to hear His voice.
The Bible, far from being a simple record of God's speaking, is in fact the infallible declaration of God's mind put into familiar human words.
And if you read the Book He has spoken to us - you may very well hear the very voice of God rustling through its pages, bringing life to a deadened heart.

If you are a Christian and you have suffered under the yoke of a sterile, stagnate spirituality - there is a way to fix your situation.For no man or woman who listens and hears the voice of God will remain spiritually sterile.
If in such a state, approach the Bible expecting God to speak to you personally; He will.
This is not a notion or a thing you can manipulate; it is listening to a voice, a small, still voice which speaks directly and with authority. 
It is the Word of the Living God.

It is my prayer that the voice of God becomes a familiar melody in your life.
It is possible when the sounds of thousands of tunes flood your spirit that you can drown them out with the one melody and the others die away.
Only then will God's voice become as music to your heart.

Until next time, try to win one for the good guys.