Do You Hear What I Hear?

Jesus said, “My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.” The context of that quote is a situation where Jesus was being derided and scoffed at by some people who claimed to be religious. His response was, in effect, “I am God. My sheep listen to me when I speak. I know who my sheep are, and it is obvious to everyone who they are, because they follow me.”

The Cliff Notes version might have been, “You are not my sheep. You don’t listen to me. You don’t follow me. And I don’t know you.”

I wonder. Do you hear God when He speaks?

For years I somehow sloughed off that verse as completely parabolic and with the theological understanding that Jesus was acting as a prophet in the passage, signifying that the Gospel would come to the Gentile nations as well the Jews. But it also always bothered me. There was always this nagging question . . . “Do I hear His voice?” I would hear people say that God told them to do something. I was always skeptical, because that is a line that charlatans often use. Eventually began to dismiss the charlatans, because, whether they said it or not, it was God Himself who stated the fact that His sheep hear His voice. So I had to be sure. Here is what I have learned:

You’ve got to get within hearing distance if you want to hear His voice.

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