Listening to the Voice

When the Voice is heard somewhere deep within that cannot be explained,  it is not a moment for argument, or questioning.  It may be a moment for wonder if wonder is not cloaked in a doubtful attire, but the attire of standing in the midst of mystery.  Only those who have no ears to hear doubt that the Voice of the Lord can be heard and known as surely as can be the sound of wind as it races across the open space to where we stand waiting.   

It is the same Voice which has been heard by men and women through more days than we can count.  It is a Voice that changes lives, brings healing to the broken, and opens doors to the future which have seem locked and nailed shut.  It is a Voice which has such force within it that the very trajectory of history seems shaken and pushed in a direction no one thought possible.  This Voice of God may be described as a still small Voice, one that seems to come more with a whisper than a shout, but there is no voice which brings such transforming power to the stage where we walk and live.  

When we hear it, and we will, we dare not take a path other than the one it calls us to take.  We dare not go on living as if we never heard it.  To do so is to live with a horrible weight of "what if" upon our shoulders.  What ever we hear from God requires not only our immediate attention, but also our immediate action.  The history which has been written through the ages and the history which is being written through our own experience tells us to listen so that God can lead us from here to there.