One of my favorite books is My Utmost For His Highest by Oswald Chambers. Thought this quote from his book was worth posting:
"The voice of the Spirit of God is as gentle as a summer breeze---so gentle that unless you are living in complete fellowhip and oneness with God, you will never hear it. The sense of warning and restraint that the Spirit gives comes to us in the most amazingly gentle ways. And if you are not sensitive enough to detect His voice, you will quench it, and your spiritual life will be impaired. This sense of restraint will always come as a 'still small voice' (1 Kings 19:12), so faint that no one except a saint of God will notice it....Whenever the Spirit gives you that sense of restraint, call a halt and make things right, or else you will go on quenching and grieving Him without even knowing it.
Suppose God brings you to a crisis and you almost endure it, but not completely. He will engineer the crisis again, but this time some of the intensity will be lost. You will have less discernment and more humiliation at having disobeyed...But if you will go on through the crisis, your life will become a hymn of praise to God."
I guess the question has to be: Can I hear His voice?
About Me
- Melanie
- I've been happily married to Jim for 44 years (but I don't know how that could be since I really don't feel that old), have 2 married children, and 5 precious grandchildren (seen above).
Good post... I've been thinking a lot about God's whisper of late. Not sure what to do with the thoughts, but this post has added to the stillness. Thank you!
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