Still Small Voice

Does your life look a lot like mine right now? Does it feel like strong winds, earthquakes and fires? Have you questioned where God is at in all the mess you see in your life and others lives and in this world? I have.

A lot of times, we want Him to show up in the biggest of ways in the midst of our biggest of trials and situations. Every now and then, He does. Most of the time, though, He doesn’t.

When we have a bunch of “noise” going on in our lives (minds) and have the enemy swirling round about us with all kinds of strong winds of doubt and there are earthquakes of situations that rattle and even demolish the very ground we’ve been standing on, when there are fiery trials that threaten to burn us right up, we must find a way to get quiet before God so we can hear His “still small voice.” Does it really matter how we get Him so long as we do get Him and the guidance and comfort and support and deliverance He brings in His very being and presence? Isn’t the goal of this life and eternity just to be close to Him, THE One, the one true God, our good, good Father?

Let’s make the decision and effort today to remove ourselves from the “noise” of life even if just for five minutes to climb all the way up in His lap and be loved by Him, to be close enough to hear what He has to say about our lives and the moment of it we are living in. Let’s trust that He alone knows how to come and what needs done and that His love for us is really all we need to not only survive, but thrive.

“And then there was a strong wind, but God wasn’t in the wind.

And after the wind, an earthquake, but God wasn’t in the earthquake.

Following the earthquake was a fire, but God wasn’t in the fire.

But after the fire, there came a still small voice.

And that’s where He was found.”

1 Kings 19:11-12