I had in a prior post written about having a basic daily devotional time with God. There is a lot of value in doing this in terms of honing your awareness of God’s voice in your daily life. When I say voice, I mean it in a broad sense of God expressing Himself through any number of ways. This could be a synchronicity, a person sharing a right word at a right time, a hymn or song on the radio, a strong intuition, a dream, vision, or insight through the Word, etc.
What I have noticed is that when we step apart from our daily activity and seek to observe God’s activity in our life, then we learn to discern God’s activity from other activity. Imagine if I were to bring you to a symphony and asked you to tell me when you heard the French Horn. If you didn’t have much classical instrument background you might be able to rightly pick it’s voice out here and there. But lets pretend that I send you home with a couple of cd’s of French Horn parts to listen to. You sit down each evening for a few minutes listening. The next time I bring you to the symphony, not only do you hear the French Horn, but you can track it with a high degree of success throughout the symphony. A daily devotional time, particularly with time in the Word, serves as that experience of isolating the ‘voice’. It develops your ear so that you can hear God’s voice in the clamoring noise of other voices.
Learning to be still before God through a similar practice of quieting your mind and sitting with a passage from scripture can also really help you hear God’s voice. If nothing else it helps you filter out unwanted verbage of the world.
Blessings from The Practical Disciple