No Bull Horn

Todays’ blog post was contributed by David Trotta:

And after the earthquake a fire; but the LORD was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice. (1 Kings 19:12)

If you were standing next to someone and you wanted to have a conversation with that person, would you use a bull horn?

Would you rent an airplane and pull the words across the sky?  (Probably not, unless you were proposing to someone on TV.)

Would you hire a singing telegram to communicate your message?

Sure, the above examples sound a little extreme, but that is how we often think God speaks.  We think He only speaks to us in some grandiose way, but quite the contrary.  He desires to speak in a still small voice, which represents friendship and intimacy.

Don’t be quick to dismiss the still small voice in your heart or the gently nudging you sense.  Instead, learn to discern and recognize His voice.

Sometimes it will be through trial and error, but the more you learn to recognize His voice, especially above the loud clamoring sounds of this world, the more you will realize that God is always speaking to His children.

He loves to share the secrets of His heart with us.  In John 15:15, Jesus said “No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.”

Jesus has declared you to be His friend and He desires to whisper to your heart today.  Learn to cultivate a quietness before God and then listen carefully for His still small voice.