God Speaks

I will hear what the LORD will say; for He will speak peace to His people, to His godly ones.

Psalm 85:8 NASB

In every good novel or play there must be a conflict. But even Shakespeare could not have created a more powerful plot than the divine dilemma. We know that man is sinful and separated from God. Because God is holy, He couldn’t automatically forgive or ignore man’s rebellion. Because God is love, He couldn’t completely cast man aside. Conflict. How could God be just and the justifier? This is the question Job posed: “But how can a man be in the right before God?” (Job 9:2 NASB).

Perhaps you have been puzzled that the prophets said God spoke to them. Does He speak to us? Does He tell us where He is—how we can find Him—how we can be right with Him? God has solved the problem; He does tell us about Himself and His loving concern. The key is a line of communication, which is “revelation.”

Revelation means “to make known,” “to unveil.” Revelation requires a “revealer,” who in this case is God. It also requires “hearers”—the chosen prophets and apostles who recorded in the Bible what He told them. Revelation is communication in which God is at one end and man is at the other.

In the revelation that God established between Himself and us we can find a new dimension of living, but we must “tune in.” Levels of living we have never attained await us. Peace, satisfaction, and joy we have never experienced are available to us. God is trying to break through. The heavens are calling and God is speaking.

Have you heard God’s voice speaking to you through the pages of His Word, the Bible? Make it a part of your life every day.

Our Father and our God, I am listening for Your voice. I want to do Your will. I want to be in tune with Your mind and spirit. Please break through my stubbornness and pride, Father, so that I may hear Your call for my life. Through Jesus, my Lord. Amen.

Billy Graham, Unto the Hills: A Daily Devotional (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 2010).