Whose voices are most familiar to us? Whose voice do we recognize the moment we hear it?
The voice of our parents.
Our own voice.
The voice of our children.
A close friend’s voice.
The voices of our favorite musicians.
Why is it that we know these voices so well?
Because we have heard them so frequently and over so many years.
Because they have meant a lot to us, we have emotional ties to them.
Because the people to whom they belong are people we are in relationship.
Because, in many instances, we have lived with and dwelled with these voices.
We have been claimed and adopted by God.
God has been speaking to us since before we were born.
The voice of God that spoke creation into being spoke life into you and speaks to you now.
We hear and know God’s voice.
We learn to recognize it through scripture, prayer, study, and through teachers, pastors, parents. The Word of God comes to us in the body and blood of Jesus, in the bread and wine of the Eucharist, it washes over us, it sings to us in the songs of worship and in the song of the wind in the trees.
And as we hear God’s voice, we learn to trust God’s voice and God’s promises.
That we are beloved.
That we are recipients of God’s grace and abundant and everlasting life in Christ.
That we are held in the hands of Christ, the hands of the Father, and nothing (not ourselves, others, actions, inactions) will snatch us out of that embrace.
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