Lauren Daigle – You Say

How crazy are the voices that surround you?  It is okay if these voices are those you have come to understand and know, your ability to weed out the weird and accept the love has a proven track record. But what if you started a new job, started attending a new church, or even moved into a new neighbourhood, how would you handle those voices?

 “Do you think, because David has sent comforters to you, that he is honoring your father? Has not David sent his servants to you to search the city and to spy it out and to overthrow it?” – 2 Samuel 10:3  ESV

The Ammonites had a new leader and the voices around him did something that wreaked havoc into his life and at the end of the day, his life was destroyed. It matters that I know the voices around me and it matters that I am listening to the right voice.

However, I get it that sometimes there is a voice that somehow takes control, supersedes God’s voice. How can that happen when He is your rock, your truth, and your life. I think there is a need that comes up and somehow that voice meets that need – in a very human way. Maybe it doesn’t meet your need, you just need it and want it, and you hope it meets your needs eventually. We actually exchange the real for the counterfeit.

Lately, I have discovered that I have been listening to a voice at work and I have been believing that the voice of approval with what I do is more important than God’s voice. At least I seek it more and listen more and want it more than God’s voice. It would seem that I know already from Him that I am special, loved, unique, called and gifted by Him. I now want to hear it from people. Not a good place to be because in order to get it, I have to lose some of me and what God has purposed me to be.

I pray today that my discernment of the motivations of what I hear will stay true to who I am in Christ and that I do not allow the new voices around me to be more important or a higher priority in my life as a disciple of Jesus.