Stepping Stones: Get Radar For His “still, small voice”

Transformational Thought

God’s Word tells us that He does speak to us. If we are not hearing, it’s because we are not listening. When Adam and Eve were in the garden, I believe they had amazing spiritual radar and high spiritual IQ … very sensitive to the spiritual world, inquisitive during their time walking in the Garden with God, and in tune with their own spiritual needs while also having minimal sensitivity, awareness, and need for the physical world and their physical needs. They ultimately enjoyed an awesome spiritual communion with God.

Then their frame of reference experienced a dramatic change. Sin flipped everything inside out resulting in dulled spiritual radar and IQ. This contrasted with a heightened awareness, need, and sensitivity to the physical world and their physical needs. For example, instead of being concerned that they were spiritually dead, they knew they were naked, ran from God, and experienced physical pain.

Think you would never have such an upside down radar? Well, look at yourself ... sex, food, hunger, sleep, illness, physical pain, working out, money, bigger house, more comfortable car, pursuing that adrenaline rush … amazing how needy, sensitive, and aware we are when these physical things “call” out to us. How are your spiritual radar and IQ? You can improve them but it takes effort and intentionality. Start by listening to God. He is always speaking to you directly, periodically through others, as often as you want through the Holy Bible. He speaks constantly in and through your circumstances.

Don’t let Satan and your flesh distract you. Don’t hyper-focus on the really insignificant, “here today, gone tomorrow” material items of this world. Tune your radar … your attentiveness … to the powerful spiritual world of the intangible and eternal … where God resides.

Today, try to make room … make time each day to sit quietly in His presence. His most powerful communication is His still small voice speaking to your spirit. Do not be hurried, for this hurriedness tunes your radar to the physical world and closes your heart to the spiritual world. WITHIN REACH helps you tune your radar to see Him and recognize His direction in all your circumstances.

Prayer
Dear Father, I am waiting here quietly in Your presence. Your thoughts are forming silently in the depths of my being. I do not rush this process. I have learned that hurrying keeps my heart closed and stuck to earthly things. You are the Creator of all things. You are the King of the universe. Yet You choose to make Your home in my broken, humiliated, and humbled heart. It is there that You speak to me in holy whispers. I pray Lord that Your Holy Spirit will quiet my mind so I can hear Your still, small voice within me. I pray this in the name of the One who was perfectly tuned in to Your voice, Jesus Christ; and all God’s children say - AMEN!

The Truth
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

My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up. For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with thee.
Psalm 5:3-4

‘For this people's heart has grown dull, and with their ears they can barely hear, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn, and I would heal them.'
But blessed are your eyes, for they see, and your ears, for they hear. For truly, I say to you, many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it.
Matthew 13:15-17