Great post about hearing God's voice

Hearing God in Meditation    by Sam Williamson, 15 July 2014  "God speaks time and again-in various ways-but nobody notices" (Job 33:14). Most people I know have an innate desire to hear God; actually, more than a desire, an intense longing. We want to connect with the divine, to somehow see the face of God, to touch and be touched. It's inborn, an inherent ingredient of our humanity. Scripture says God is always speaking, but we miss it. We don't notice his voice because we don't recognize it. Oh, sometimes he breaks in through writing on the wall or thorough a speaking beast of burden, but mostly he speaks in a still, small voice. We miss his voice because it is drowned out in the sea of other voices. The cacophony of sounds, like an orchestra tuning, obscures that still small voice. Stomachs growl their hunger, bosses bark their orders, and that insult from twenty years ago still shouts its condemnation. How do we learn to discern God's voice? In meditation. Christian meditation trains our ears to distinguish God's voice--that one instrument--amidst the orchestra of others. And once we learn to recognize God's voice, we begin to hear it "time and again, in various ways." To hear God's voice, we need to learn to meditate. Unless, like Balaam, you have a talking ass.    [...]      Read more...