God’s voice. It can be freeing and it can be frustrating.
God’s voice comes in all different tones and through all different avenues. It varies between each person and has a way of penetrating to the core. His voice makes people do things that they would never do when they are in their mind. It sometimes requires faith. It sometimes brings peace. It can ask you to speak things out, to find revelation or bring a song to your heart and others. It is no doubt that God’s voice is the most powerful, timeless, indescribable voice ever. He speaks through creation and to our spirit. His voice can not be contained to any imagination. It shakes the heart of his people and puts them into action. It can make music or charge it’s enemies. It brings reverent fear and finds it’s ways through the messiest, loudest storms to calm them. It is the voice of God.
So why do I sometimes sit in His presence frustrated? His voice changes an atmosphere. It change the course of a persons path or even a nation. I can get confused by my voice and his. I know we have all asked, “Is that you or is that me?” or “I don’t hear you God!” or even “Did I really hear you right because if I did I would do it?”
God says ” My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me.” John 10:27. I don’t think the sheep sit there and ask themselves ” Was that me that went BAAAA or was that the shepherd calling me?” They know their shepherd’s voice and they follow that. They don’t turn back; they don’t second guess.
I thought I would be over these questions about His voice. I thought I would hear it so distinctly that I would run and leap instead of creep and wonder. It is about faith. His voice brings life in all circumstances. Although I may not understand or comprehend what He might be saying, God’s voice is life giving and bringing. He is incarnated in me.
I think He can speak to me in a voice that is familiar…like my own. That is when I sometimes question But His spirit lives in me and I am walking in that. I am not trying to walk in ways that are rebellious. I am walking in the Spirit. He knows the desire of my heart. I long to just sit with Him and listen and talk like I can with a close friend. God is close to me and we do have these types of conversations but until I can get “me” out of the way or my confusion/frustration—it is there I find God as He always is and always will be. There I find His voice and confidence in that. No matter how it sounds or how it is conveyed, my spirit jumps with life. No matter how tough of a word He gives or a simple “I love you” I trust and know.
