What God Sounds Like
By Abby Kelly

My neighbor texted me fairly early on a Saturday morning. "Can I come over?"

Ummm not exactly what I had planned for my budding weekend, but it felt like the right thing to do, "Sure!"

Seated comfortably in my kitchen, clasping the requisite cups of coffee, we hurried over casual chatter about our miserable, winter weather; the weather, however, that had closed her office and made our fellowship possible.

"I'm done. I'm just completely done," Kat told me. "I want to quit so badly! I just don't know when or how, or if it's God's will. I don't want to just do it because I'm frustrated; I really want to be obedient to God!"

Kat continued unfolding the circumstances that drove her to this place of utter resignation. As I listened, my mind ran the maze of possibilities. Of course, we need to hear from God! But what does God sound like?

Have you ever held your Bible, pages up and let it fall open to just anywhere? You hoped that the verse from God would just pop off the page - simple applicable answer. Or maybe you've sat in church Sunday after Sunday, willing the pastor to look right at you and affirm that his sermon was God's word just for you.

I have participated in specific Bible studies because the titles implied they would address my exact need. I know I've opened devotional after devotional, and prayed for long hour seven on my knees without a single, sure reply from my Heavenly Father.

So what does God sound like?

"The modern scientist has lost God amid the wonders of His world; we Christians are in real danger of losing God amid the wonders of His Word. We have forgotten that God is a person and, as such, can be cultivated as any person can." A.W. Tozer

At first read, that almost sounds sacrilegious! But, I believe, it is firmly backed by Scripture:

"Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass." Psalm 37:4, 5

"I bless the LORD who gives me counsel; in the night also my heart instructs me." Psalm 16:7

"Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established." Proverbs 16:3

"For who knows a person's thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God." 1 Corinthians 2:11-12

No human relationship is built on anything less than an exchange of thoughts and an ever deepening knowledge of the other's personality. When God breathed into you His breath of life, the Bible says, you became a living spirit; you were made in God's image. Therefore, as Tozer says, a relationship with God can be cultivated through the same means as we tend our human relationships.

My exchange with Kat is a perfect example. This wasn't the first time we sat across the table and shared our hearts. Other times we had discussed our marriages, laughed at her children's antics or designed creative projects. Over time, I've come to understand her and her way of thinking. I've developed an empathy for her, feeling her emotions of pain, sadness, fear or joy right along with her.

Is it safe to say our knowledge of God's heart can be learned the same way? Wouldn't that also reveal His will to us in every situation?

Romans 1:20 says, "For ever since the world was created, people have seen the earth and sky. Through everything God made, they can clearly see his invisible qualities--his eternal power and divine nature. So they have no excuse for not knowing God."

God wants you to know Him, His heart, His will. He even clothed His personhood in human flesh, just like ours, so that man could touch and see Him.

John 10:27 says, "My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me ".

You, my beloved sibling in the Lord, have the mind of Christ. You know the heart of God. If you have committed your way to Him, you can trust that He is infusing you with His desires. Do not lose God, your ability to discern the will of God, in all manner of rituals and prescribed methods. Don't be worried that you might miss what He would say to you or that you're not praying hard enough or doing the right thing. Pray and then let God direct your thoughts, your feelings and your conscience.

It's too good to be true, right? Surely, that's too simple. Surely, hearing God, knowing what God sounds like, involves something more complicated. Nope. Hearing from God is as simple as salvation was: just believe.

There's a cliche that we often hear in church circles, "I just don't have a peace about it."

I can tell you how to have that peace. Once you have committed your way to Him and trust Him to transfer His desires into your heart, turn your mind to Jesus.

"You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you." Isaiah 26:3

So you wanted to know what God sounds like; you wanted to have peace in a certain situation. It's beautifully simple.

Kat and I bowed our hearts before our Father, the steady drizzle outside manifesting His glory even in the moment. When she rose, a different emotion lit her eyes. She no longer seemed about to burst with frustration. Instead, peace glimmered there.

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