God’s Indescribable Gift

While it is not very difficult to believe that God spoke to His people back then, it is not so easily comprehended that He still speaks in this way. And it is much more difficult to believe that He speaks to me in this manner.

A prevailing view of God’s communication seems to be that He has given us a complete Bible plus intelligence, and that should be sufficient for our instruction. This view, however, fails to adequately explain why God, having communicated with His people a certain way in all of His recorded dealings with them, should suddenly fall silent and cease to do so. Such a viewpoint is also contrary to His desire for an intimate relationship with His people. Having gone to such lengths to restore our ability to relate to Him once again, it certainly is less than feasible that He would then cease to speak personally with us.

I believe that this result is God’s desire that His Word would have in us. This can only occur, however, when we regard the Bible as the living and active word of a living and active Person Who desires to speak with us face to face, as someone speaks to their friend.