"The voice of the Lord is over the waters;
the God of glory thunders,
the Lord, over mighty waters.
The voice of the Lord is powerful;
the voice of the Lord is full of majesty."
Psalm 29:3-4
Yesterday I hiked back along the Rogue River to it's headwaters, the place the river actually begins. The guide book says that it is an easy trail and it probably is for folks who are not used to the midwest flatlands. But other than the two groups I met who were hiking out I had the whole trail to myself. When I got near the trails end there was this beautiful waterfall. It was loud and filled the silence with the sound of rushing water. But after taking pictures there for about 30 minutes I realized that I wasn't hearing the water anymore. I had actually blocked it out and it now seemed as silent as it had on the trail miles from anyone or anything.
It made me wonder how often I block out the thunder of God's voice and just go about my days as if God wasn't even there. I know that I hear God best when God speaks in that "still small voice" of Elijah (I Kings 19:12) but what if I let God's voice be the one I heard over all the other noises in my life? Could it be that God is speaking all around us and we have just decided to allow the sound of God's voice to become white noise that we no longer hear?
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I pray that I DO NOT mistake God's voice for "white noise"! But, with so much going on around us, I fear that it happens without us realizing it. I will pray that I do not miss God's conversation with/to me, and must take time to listen, hear, and be able to discriminate between God's beautiful voices (in words, wind, water, falling rain, crashing thunder, quiet) and the worlds noise.
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