Communication in this modern age can be frustrating on many levels. Everyone seems to have a phone these days but legions are totally perplexed as to how to go about retrieving messages. Perhaps this is how many of us feel about messages from God. It wasn't so bad when we were using the old communication technique - you know, the Bible. Then along came new and 'improved' methods. We were told that God had a specific will for each of our lives and, more importantly, we had to find that will. We were now on a celestial treasure hunt to 'discover the will of God'. Complicating matters further was that the Bible provided no instructions to aid in this search. Instead, we were told that the Lord was providing a sort of new and fresh revelation completely apart from biblical revelation. It was personalized revelation directed specifically at each individual. It was the voice of God but not audibly heard. This voice was an inner voice most likely detected through hunches, feelings, promptings and circumstances. And adding to the gravity of the situation was the warning that to miss this voice, or even misinterpret it, would doom us to living outside the will of God - perhaps for life.
