Obey My Voice

Ken

“Obey My voice [Hebrew, qôl, voice, sound, noise], and I will be your God” (Jeremiah 7:23 KJV). The NET and NIV just as correctly translate this as “obey Me,” since the emphasis is on the command. But, do we obey the voice of God? Is that righteous thought in your head the voice of God, which should be obeyed? We have come a long way since we have confined the voice of God only to the inspired, canonized Scripture. We are rightly concerned that anyone can claim God spoke to them in their thoughts; but, are we so biblically illiterate that we cannot discern the false from the true? “To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them” (Isaiah 8:20). Let us again be a people sensitive to the voice of God, though it be a small voice, in our head.