A God Who Speaks

The God that we serve is not one who hides His face. God wants to be active in our lives. By God's grace, we have all been called into a lifelong relationship with Christ. Even so, in order for this lifelong relationship to work, it is going to require communication on both our part and God's. We know that we can communicate with God by praying to Him, but do we really always know when He is speaking to us? After all, how can we obey Christ, if we can't hear what He is saying to us? How can we hear Him, if we don't know what to listen to, or to listen for?

Randy Alcorn suggest that "Knowing God's voice, I think, comes mostly from abiding in Christ, as in John 15. Part of that, but not all of it, is His Word abiding is us." Knowing God's voice is a lot like knowing the voice of a friend. When we meet someone for the first time, we probably won't recognize their voice right away. It takes time to build a relationship, and to discover how to communicate with each other. In the same way that we communicate with men, women, friends, and family differently, God communicates with us differently. But make no mistake, God does communicate with each one of us. As we build our relationship with Him, and as He transforms us and makes us holy, we can't help but understand His voice.

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