God Still Speaks Today

When Moses went and told the people all the Lord's words and laws, they responded with one voice, "Everything the Lord has said we will do."

-Exodus 24:3



As a young boy I wondered what it would have been like to have been at the battlefield in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania and have heard President Abraham Lincoln give his historic Gettysburg Address. This was before the days of electronic recordings, so no one knows exactly what Lincoln’s voice actually sounded like. You would have had to have been there and have heard him speak.

We might be tempted to think the same thing about this passage in the Bible. This happened thousands of years ago, so only those who were there knew what the voice of God sounded like. That, my friends, is incorrect. We can know what the voice of the Lord sounds like, for we can still hear His voice as He speaks today. People will often say that they have never heard God’s voice. My response is that they need to keep listening. However, don’t just listen, but listen in faith. If we seek God we will find Him, and if we listen for His voice we will hear Him as He speaks - in a gentle whisper, a quiet conviction, or a calm reassurance.

God gave the commandments in absolute completeness. The same thing occurs in God’s Word. We have all of God’s Word we are going to get, and we have all the Word we will need. God did not give 8 of the commandments and tell them to come back later for the rest. No, God gave them in completeness. The same holds true with the Word. We have God’s Word, in its entirety, as God intended for us to have it. Just as God inspired His Word, so did He preserve His Word down through the centuries – so that we have it today. Let us never take for granted how precious is the Word of God and our freedom to possess it and proclaim its message of salvation, grace, and hope. The Lord still speaks today - through His Word, in our hearts, and that calming voice will come just when we need it the most.