Within the Reach of His Voice

The place where God speaks is the place where God dwells.  The place where we are able to hear the voice of the Lord is wherever we are in any present moment of our life.  We may hear Him on Sunday morning in our sanctuary worship, but it will not be the only place.  We may hear Him in silence so still it hangs in the air or even in the midst of a city street so noisy we want to put our hands over our ears.  There is no place where the voice of the Lord cannot be spoken and there is no place where it is impossible for us to hear Him. 

In the 139th Psalm, we hear those familiar words, "Where can I go from Your Spirit?  Or where can I flee from Your presence?  If I ascend into heaven, You are there; if I make my bed in Sheol, You are there.  If I take to the wings of the morning and settle at the farthest limits of the sea..even there...Your right hand shall hold me fast."  (Psalm 139:7-10). The passage proclaims that God is found in any place within the creation we can see as well as the creation which remains beyond the scope of our vision.  Wherever we find ourselves within this order of God, we are in a place His voice can be heard by our Spirit.   

We err if we think that God can only be heard in holy moments of worship, or quiet moments of personal devotions.  Once we are convinced that He is still desiring to speak to us and once we expect it to happen in our lives, we will discover that any moment and any place is one in which He may choose to speak a Word for our heart to hear.  We cannot go beyond the reach of His voice.  It will surely sound forth and our spirit will hear and know that it is the voice of the Lord.