Does God speak to us?

By John Vieths

Revelation 1:10-16 “On the Lord’s Day I was in the Spirit, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet which said: Write on a scroll what you see and send it to the seven churches…I turned to see the voice that was speaking to me... His head and hair were white like wool…and his eyes were like blazing fire. His face was like the sun shining in all its brilliance.”

You may have heard Christians talk about how God “spoke” to them, leading them to decide to follow some certain path in their lives. Rarely do these people claim that they actually heard a voice. Rather, they felt some vague impression moving them.

Occasionally such people will even admit that what they thought was God speaking to them evidently must have been something else. Even James Dobson warns, “I have come to regard the interpretation of impressions as risky business, at best…The human mind will often