How do you hear God speak into your life?
There is a great conversation ender, if ever there was one. Go ahead, try it. The vast majority of the time people will respond with stunned silence or emphatic denials that they have ever heard God speak to them. My experience has been that this is true even of lifelong, devoted disciples.
I recall the first time I really wrestled with that question. I was a college junior when I called up my beloved pastor, the Rev. Gene Hermeier for guidance. I was contemplating not pursuing medical school and wanted to explore with him whether God was calling me to be a pastor instead. Pastor Hermeier is a giant of the faith; he is like the biblical description of Stephen in Acts 6, a man of grace and power. He was also, in my moment of need, eminently approachable. How do you hear God speak into your life?, I asked of him.
What he taught me over the course of that summer between my junior and senior year changed my life forever. God guides His people, he reassured me. He does speak and we can learn to listen to His “still, small voice.” We can depend on that guidance no matter the storms that raged around us.
In the next several posts I want to share what I learned then and in the years since in answer to this profoundly central question. But for now, I invite you to simply wrestle with the naked question itself: How do you hear God speak into your life?
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