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Ears to Hear

Hear! Shema! with all that is within you!

March 8, 2023 • Michael Brennan

What is real ‘God talk’? Not our talk about Him, but real conversation between God and us? Saying ‘God talks to me’ around the world will only get you eye rolls and gestures suggesting you’re crazy. And to be honest, needing to have everyone know that God talks to me most likely deserves eye rolls and gestures.


However, God does talk to us. Our Jewish brothers define Adam’s first moment of life as “and he became a communicating being.” This clearly implies that ‘God talking to us and we talking to Him’ was a super high priority in making us.


However, Adam and Eve’s walks 'in the cool of the evening’ with God were more likely time spent basking in a wonder filled experience of sensing and knowing His glory than actually talking out loud.


After sin entered the world, our talking out loud skills exploded and our sensing and knowing skills faded. So, what is real God talk now? Most folks I know and trust as ‘God talkers’ have spent serious time allowing Holy Spirit to activate that sensing and knowing skill with the result they can regularly hear God. Sometimes they hear with words but more often with an inner knowing that requires the use of spoken words to share that knowing.


In Jesus' 33½ years of life, the audible voice of God is only recorded three times. All the rest of His oneness with the Father was sensing and knowing. Our Father talks all the time. Our hearing requires ears that know how to hear His knowing.