A Conversational Relationship

What we never know is when God is going to speak.  Those who listen for that Voice only on Sunday morning in worship gatherings are limiting their ability to hear a Voice that is never silent.  Maybe the Voice that is always speaking is not like the thundering and overpowering Voice which Moses heard when he went up the holy mountain and maybe it is not a Voice which throws us to the ground such as the one Saul of Tarsus heard on the Damascus Road, but this in no way says that God is not speaking to each one of us.  One of the problems we face as we seek to hear the voice of God in our life is that we are listening for a Voice which sounds like our own and one that we hear with the ears with which we are born.  

The truth is we are also born with invisible ears to hear this Voice which speaks out of the silence to our heart and spirit.  When He speaks it may be a thundering voice, but more likely it is going to be a voice we hear somewhere within our spirit that comes more like an awareness than a sound.  It is mysterious how this Voice that makes no sounds can be heard by those like us who are created to hear what cannot be heard.  We often forget that it is in His image that we are created and while we are not like Him, we have been created by the eternal light set forth in the creation from the very beginning and with a spirit designed to interact with the Spirit of the One who made us.  

From the very beginning the plan of God was to have a relationship of speaking and hearing with the created man and woman of the Garden.  It was conversational relationship.  The Voice of the Creator was heard by them and even when they forgot who they were, He still continued to speak and they did not lose their ability to hear.  We are made for that kind of relationship.  It is something so many have forgotten and something desperately needed to know the abundant and full life for which we were created.