God's Voice

Have you ever wondered what God's voice sounds like?  People have said that He doesn't speak audibly it's a feeling in your heart, it's the voice in your head that you just know to be true.  I think that anyone I have ever heard answer the question "How do you know God is speaking to you?" has had a different answer. I have heard Him speak, I have heard is voice.  That I know for certain...he once told me "Don't worry I've got you". Somehow that doesn't seem as amazing as when He works through the everyday experiences to let me know He really does have me.

I have had a horrible week.  Nothing in my world seems right.  I turn in every direction looking for joy in my heart and it just isn't there.  Yesterday I was walking through the grocery store and I couldn't concentrate on the task at hand.  Silent tears in the meat department.  Not a pretty sight.  I was using my phone to take notes so that I can plan the meals for the week.  I had a pretty good list going too, it was making me awfully  hungry.   At one point  I added a meal to my list and started looking for the ingredients.  The next time I looked at my list it had been replaced by another:

Bible Joy

Ps 16:11

I thought I might have somehow jumped to another note I was taking but had forgotten about.  I looked at the date and time it was entered.  Nope it was brand new.  How?!!  I had no idea until I read it.  Thank God for technology, I was able to look it up on my Bible App right then and there.  It was a message from my Daddy. 

"You will show me the way of life, granting me the joy of your presence and the pleasures of living with you forever."

Shouldn't knowing that we will have the pleasures of  living with Him forever be enough joy to sustain anyone?  I have to be honest, for me, it isn't as simple as that.  It takes work, reminding, time in the Word and in worship.  It takes being deliberate about being in His presence and it takes His gentle reminders like this one and many many more He has been showing me.  It takes His gentle whisper in my heart and the slight pressure of His hands on my back nudging me in the right direction.  It takes knowing that when I do walk in another direction all I have to do is turn around and His hands are there welcoming me back and ready to nudge me again and keep me safe from sorrow and from my own selfish mistakes.

God does speak audibly, I know it to be true.  I also know that He is God and I am not, He will speak to me in a way that only He knows I will understand.  He speaks to each of us in the way we need to hear it, not the way we want to hear it. 

Praise be to God!  He is good ALL THE TIME!