ORANGE —
My wife loves to watch the talent competition show called “The Voice.”
She likes the show because she thinks one of the Judges, Adam Levine, is cute.
So reluctantly, I watch also.
The premise of the show is that all the Judges have to choose their team of singers by only hearing their voices. They sit in chairs facing away from the Singers, which they turn facing the Singers only after they vote for them. Our voice conveys so much, the sound of a familiar voice can excite you or calm you. A sound of an unfamiliar voice, or a loud voice, can bring fear. I was having a conversation with one of my relatives who claims that he is agnostic. He rationalizes that he can't say if there is a God or not, because he has not heard or seen God. He asked me, “How can you believe something that you cannot see or hear?”
My reply was this. I see and hear God every day. When I first sought God in my life and when God first spoke to me it was when I had been praying for God to change the lives of the Youth of my church where I volunteered as a Youth Counselor. God answered my prayer. God spoke and changed someone’s life that Sunday morning during worship. I know because it was my life. I believe if we seek God's voice, if we train our ears to hear His voice, you will know it is God.
Listen to what Jesus says in John 10:1-5. “Very truly I tell you Pharisees, anyone who does not enter the sheep pen by the gate, but climbs in by some other way, is a thief and a robber. The one who enters by the gate is the shepherd of the sheep. The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. When he has brought out all his own, he goes on ahead of them, and his sheep follow him because they know his voice. But they will never follow a stranger; in fact, they will run away from him because they do not recognize a stranger’s voice.”
During a children's sermon, I asked the children to close their eyes and listen to the voices of church members as they spoke.
In preparation, I’d asked several people to speak but only one parent was to speak.
When he did, his son’s eyes lit up and he shouted Daddy!
Train your ears to hear His voice!
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