The wisdom of God is deposited within us by the Holy Spirit and his voice calls out within us continually to heed his leading. There are many voices that compete for our attention. We must choose which voice to focus on and amplify. The voice we heed the most becomes the loudest. There is the voice of those expectations that we feel we must fulfil to live up to standards that have no relation to God’s will for us. There is the voice that tells us we must prove our worth through this or that achievement. There is the voice that discourages and belittles us. There is the voice of self-justification and self-entitlement. There is the voice of anger and bitterness telling us to make other people pay for their wrongs. These are just some of the many voices that vie for our attention. We can end up feeling agitated and stressed by the noise of all these demanding impulses in our hearts. But there is a path of peace in that one inner voice of wisdom. We must make time regularly to tune into the voice of the Spirit of God within us and then get used to listening to God throughout our days. It’s not a technique, it is an act of commitment and surrender. We must decide how we want to live and then get in tune with the one who is always talking to us. When you persistently ignore those other voices, you will find that they will run out of energy. But God will never stop speaking to his children.
Ask God to show you what his greatest concern for you is right now.
Read Proverbs 1:20-33
