Cover2Cover - June 15

June 15, 2019 Sharon Kaselonis

A Still Small Voice

Today's Through the Bible Reading: 1 Kings 17 - 19

Abbreviated Reading: 1 Kings 19

“…And, behold, there came a voice unto him..." 1 Kings 19:13

God, who speaks in a gentle whisper, with His Word: spoke the world into existence (Gen. 1:3); commands the sun and the stars (Job 9:7); sets the oceans' limits (Job 38:11); moves mountains (Job 9:5,6); calms the raging sea (Ps. 65:7; Matt. 8:26); humbles men (Matt. 17:5,6); heals the blind (John 9:6); makes the lame leap for joy (Mark 2:8); raises the dead (John 11:43); and brings eternal life (John 5:24). In today’s reading, God stops the dew and rain, commands ravens to feed His prophet, and miraculously provides for a widow in the midst of a famine. Truly the spoken Word of God is powerful but never overbearing and Elijah quite literally had the privilege of experiencing the power of God’s still small voice.

…the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the LORD; but the LORD was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the LORD was not in the earthquake: And after the earthquake a fire; but the LORD was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice… when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle, and went out, and stood in the entering in of the cave. And, behold, there came a voice unto him, and said, What doest thou here, Elijah? 1 Kings 19:11-13

Did you know that we have the same opportunity to hear God’s voice as Elijah? It’s true, we sure do! God has given us His Word and each and every day that we choose to open His Word, we too get to hear from Him and experience the power of His still, small voice.

Elijah heard the thunder and quaking of the earth, but God’s voice wasn’t in all that noise. Just like Elijah, the world around us can get quite noisy and threatens to drown out His Word. We need that still small voice of God’s Word. So keep digging into God’s Word today, and every day, and hear what His still, small voice would say to you.