How do you know if God is talking to you? How do you know he is there?
For Meditation (Becky Bowers)
We continue our summer sermon series this week with the profound and deeply personal question: “How do you know if God is talking to you? How do you know He is there?” Our children are asking BIG questions! We all long to be known and loved. That God condescends to communicate with his creation, to reveal himself, is a glorious mystery.
Scripture teaches that our God is a God who speaks, though not always in the ways we expect. Because God is spirit, we don’t interact with him in the very same ways we do with other people. Still, we do experience his presence and hear his voice in various ways through creation, Scripture, the person of Jesus, and the gentle whisper of the Holy Spirit. He invites us to come to him and develop familiarity with his voice like sheep with their shepherd or a child with their parents.
Even in times when God is silent, his presence remains; his love is not based on how loudly He speaks, but on what Christ has already done. We will experience his presence as we come to the table of communion together this week. In the mystery of the bread and the cup, we are invited to listen, trust, and rest in the faithful voice of our Shepherd.
As you prepare for worship this Sunday, consider the following:
When have you felt most aware of God’s presence or voice in your life? What was different in that moment?
Do you expect God to speak to you? How does your understanding of His character shape that expectation?
How might you make space in your life to listen more attentively to God—through stillness, Scripture, or time in creation?
When God seems silent, how do you respond? What practices or people help you stay rooted in trust during those times?
John 10:27
My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me.
John 4:24
God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.
Romans 1:20
For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
Jeremiah 33:3
“Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.”