Flashing Lights

I heard them making their cow noises just before dark last night.  It was too dark to really see what might be going on over in the pasture so I drove the truck over, counted heads, and with a quick survey determined that everything was all right.  This morning something still did not seem right from the noise in the pasture so I went back again.  This time a closer look revealed a problem with the water getting into the water trough.  The cows were telling me there was a problem last night, but I was either too tired, or too much in a hurry to listen.    

Now I am not ready to put into production a movie about talking cows, but it surely does seem that there is some talking going on for those who listen.  Nothing new about that phenomena.  There is always more to hear than what we are hearing even as there is more to see than what we are seeing.  Sometimes it takes a moment of slowing down to let the eyes that see what cannot be seen and the ears which hear what cannot be heard do their work.  

And while this may be true in the cow pasture, it is also true in our spiritual lives.  God is not silent.  Neither is He invisble.  His Voice is sounding all around us. His presence is constantly being revealed to us through the things of creation which He has put around us and through the impossible to understand work of the Holy Spirit.  It is never a matter of Him not sounding out holy words to us, but instead, we flash the lights around for a quick look and miss what we are being led to see.