Hearing God's voice

It has been a long time since I wrote. The title of this post may be misleading- this is not about a spiritual encounter or hallucination. Some time ago I wrote about my favourite childhood song... "I am a Promise".  Recently looking back at that post (hindsight being 20/20).. I realised that I put too much emphasis on the the promise, on the possibility, on the capital P. I forgot what is maybe the most important two lines of the song. "... I am learning to hear God's voice, and I am trying to make the right choice...". If you are at all familiar with what I have been writing about in recent times it is just this.... making the right choice.

What I have learned is that I needed to "hear God's voice" in order to make that right choice. First you need to silence the other voices. You know those voices they tell you; "that's impossible, you can't do that, someone like you should not do that, what would people think, what would your family say, what if you fail, it will take too long, you can't afford it, someone else cannot do without you, something else should be more important.......". When you silence all those voices- some may even call them the voices of reason-you remove fear of failure, believe anything is possible and forget about cost.... then you hear it. And when you hear it don't second guess yourself... listen to it, it is telling you something that you know to be true.