HEARING GOD

‘Hearing God’ can be a tough thing to explain to our self and to others. It shouldn’t be though because it is supposed to be as simple and natural as hearing one another. Our common remarks might be: ‘I think this is what I heard God say,’ or ‘I sense this was what I was hearing’ and such. This is safe and keeps our practice of hearing in subjectivity where it needs to be. However… we should by faith clearly know if we have heard the Lord say something to us.

The insightful Howard Thurman (1899-1981) author, philosopher, theologian, Christian mystic, and educator, wrote: “the way to hear God is to be exceptionally quiet.”

We can hear from God in a variety of ways, such as experience, epiphany, Scripture, or perhaps a theophany or a billboard by the roadside. But of all the ways, I think Thurman’s is the best… at least for me: to be exceptionally quiet.

“My sheep hear my voice, I know them, and they follow me.” Jesus