Texting Hallelujah!™

Have You Heard the Inaudible Voice?

Creation proclaims God’s glory and groans for restoration. Our own longing invites us to consider what God is saying.

Have you ever felt an inward nudge to do what was right—even when you had intended to do something else? 

You didn’t hear a voice; no angel visited you—you just knew the right thing to do.

You acted on that prompting, perhaps surprising yourself, and afterward felt the quiet satisfaction of having done something good.

What is that prompting within us?

We call it conscience—but does naming it explain it? Is it merely chemical activity within us? Why should we heed its insistence on doing right when selfishness would be easier—or more rewarding?

Psalm 19 describes an inaudible voice in nature that proclaims God’s glory. You and I are part of that creation. Could the prompting we feel within us be more than our bodies at work—could it be God calling us to listen to Him?

David said, “They have no speech, they use no words; no sound is heard from them. Yet their voice goes out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world” (Psalm 19:3–4 NIV).

Yet creation does more than proclaim God’s glory. It also groans for restoration. And you and I, part of that creation, know something of that longing.

Romans 8:19 (NIV) says, “the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.” Verses 22-23 continue, “we ourselves…groan inwardly…”

Creation longs for release, and we long for restoration: a relationship with God no longer broken by humanity’s willful sin.

Perhaps you have felt that longing even while faithfully following the do’s and don’ts of religious observance. You try harder, yet still wonder: Have I done enough to be accepted by God?

Only the Bible contains God’s specific revelation of Himself. The Bible says that restoration comes through God’s grace, received by faith—not through our works. This restoration is God’s gift to whoever believes that Jesus Christ is Lord and that God raised him from the dead (see Romans 10:9-10; Ephesians 2:8-10; John 3:16). 

The inaudible witness of creation directs us to the specific revelation of God’s Word, the Bible. Psalm 19 moves from the heavens declaring God’s glory to His Word searching our hearts. David ends with a prayer that God would make his words and inward thoughts acceptable to Him:

“May these words of my mouth and this meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, Lord, my Rock and my Redeemer” (Psalm 19:14 NIV).

Today, as you read the Bible, ask the Lord for grace to hear His voice and obey it so that the unseen work of grace in you may become the voice someone needs to hear.