HEARING GOD'S VOICE

IRENE KENT

That true hearing is a spiritual, not a physical, faculty was proved by Moses, Enoch, Elijah, and other prophets and leaders who directly received divine guidance. Speaking of this, Mary Baker Eddy says in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p.308), "The Soul-inspired patriarchs heard the voice of Truth, and talked with God as consciously as man talks with man."

To be able to hear God's voice one must cultivate those qualities that prepare one to listen, hear, heed, and obey, else he will not be likely to find the pathway that leads from sense to Soul, nor be able to walk in it with orderly and well-defined footsteps.

Learning to listen spiritually requires practice, self-discipline, consecration, and much communion with God. We do not hear the divine directing while the senses clamor, while human will and desire argue and mere human outlining would block the way that Love points out. These must be silenced by humble willingness to obey the Father and to trust all to Him. Self-abnegation demonstrates man's at-one-ment with the all-wise intelligence which is Mind, God. Such subjugation of the human to the divine does away with any will, mind, action, or desire apart from this all-wise, all-loving Mind and enables us to listen for and hear the voice of God.

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