I wonder sometimes can we really hear God?
What I mean by that is, can we hear with our ears the voice of God? Has anyone? Ever?
I ask this not because I wonder if God speaks. I know for sure God "speaks" I just want to tap in to this communication in the most effective way possible. In other words, I just want to "hear" whenever God "speaks."
Most of the stories where God speaks can be interpreted in two different ways: where God's voice is heard audibly or where the voice is more experienced than heard. Now I don't deny the possibility that God can speak audibly. It's God! And God can do what God wants to do. But that being the case...does God really (or still)speak like that?
Part of me wants to say that God doesn't use our ears to communicate and never has. It may be because I have never heard the sound of God's voice...but I have felt it. Yes, God speaks, but not through the physical, rather through what is spiritual. God speaks to the heart and mind of the soul. It doesn't make it any less real...and for me it makes even more sense as I read those scriptures when people "hear" God.
So how can we "hear" if God speaks rather than through our ears? Silence might be a good place to start, to be still and quiet and block out all that is around and distracting. Or maybe solitude, a whole environment of peacefulness. Reading scripture can lead to just the right circumstances to hear. But it is not the physical environment that affects our God-listening ability rather it is the condition of the heart. Is it ready to receive a message, a call, a confirmation, a critique?
I know that I have heard God...in my heart. But I also know that I cannot hear and do not hear when my heart is not in this divine dialogue.
Want to hear God?
Open your heart!
Peace ><>
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1 comment:
I agree with the hearing via spirit. It is a feeling and yet I think many of us wonder what it would be like to hear audibly the voice of God. The closest I have been to experiencing that is in dreams where I am half asleep and hear that same voice I "feel" when I am awake.
When I wake, I still hear the echo of his voice, but dreamily try to remember what he was calling me for and what it sounded like exactly.
That is the closest I have ever come to audibly hearing the voice of God, though I have found every experience compelling and each have left me humble and in a dazed wonder.
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