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The Noise of Life

Can you recognize the voice of God in a world full of noise?

Simply Lyn

6/3/20264 min read

The Noise of Life

Can you recognize the voice of God in a world full of noise?

Or have the voices of culture, opinions, social media, podcasts, trends, platforms, and people become louder than the voice of God?

We live in a generation constantly consuming information yet struggling to discern the voice of God.

Many people hear sermons.
Many people listen to motivational clips.
Many people seek prophetic words.
Many people enjoy church culture.

But do you know Him?

God desires an individual relationship with us just as He had with the disciples, calling all believers to the Great Commission.

“And He said, ‘To you it has been granted to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God, but to the rest they are told in parables, so that while seeing they may not see, and while hearing they may not understand.’”
— Luke 8:10 NASB

God desires to reveal the deep things, mysteries, and secrets of His Word to those who are willing to pick up their cross and follow Him.

“Then Jesus said to His disciples, ‘If anyone wants to come after Me, he must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow Me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it; but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it. For what good will it do a person if he gains the whole world, but forfeits his soul? Or what will a person give in exchange for his soul?’”
— Matthew 16:24–26 NASB

How many are truly willing to lose their life to find Christ on a deeper level?

A level where He walks with you.
A level where He speaks to you.
A level where He interprets things to you.
A level where all you do is obey.
A level where He calls you friend.

“No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, because all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you.”
— John 15:15 NASB

Isn’t it interesting that this comes from the one in the Bible who stated he was the one Jesus loved? The one God revealed the end times to through Revelation. Oh, how that resonates with me.

The noise of life desensitizes us spiritually and we miss the revelations.

Scrolling fills those quiet moments where we should be sitting with God listening to Him speak.

Content keeps our attention while God waits for us to open His Word, sit at His table, break bread, and commune with Him.

The voices of culture, opinions, and people grow so loud that the voice of God becomes unrecognizable.

Many people search platforms for answers while God waits for them to seek Him personally in prayer and His Word.

People become the headline while God, the head of our lives, is pushed into the background as the tail.

He is Lord of lords and King of kings.

He is the source.

Yet intimacy with God has taken last place in our lives while remaining the very thing needed for us to truly know Him like Abraham did.

“Now the LORD appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, while he was sitting at the tent door in the heat of the day. And he raised his eyes and looked, and behold, three men were standing opposite him; and when he saw them, he ran from the tent door to meet them and bowed down to the ground, and said, ‘My Lord, if now I have found favor in Your sight, please do not pass Your servant by. Please let a little water be brought and wash your feet, and make yourselves comfortable under the tree; and I will bring a piece of bread, so that you may refresh yourselves; after that you may go on, since you have visited your servant.’ And they said, ‘So do as you have said.’”
— Genesis 18:1–5 NASB

Abraham recognized the presence of God when He appeared.

The atmosphere changes when He shows up. Nothing can fully describe it, you just know, and Abraham did not take the moment for granted that God came to visit him personally.

He offered to wash their feet and commune with them.

Although we are friends of God and He reveals secrets to His people as He was about to do with Abraham, we must still humble ourselves and remember that we are His servants and He is first.

Our first commitment should always be gratitude and reverence for everything He has done for us.

God is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

He is still here.
He is alive and well.
He is waiting for us to start the conversation and acknowledge Emmanuel, God with us.

There is nothing He cannot do.

He guides.
He warns.
He comforts.
He loves.
He corrects.
He leads.
He even chastises.

And take it from me, chastisement is not the best place to be, yet I love Him even more because it reveals how personally He cares for my growth, my wellbeing, my heart, and my future.

I want God to talk with me in the cool of the day and in the heat of the day. Twenty-four hours a day, three hundred and sixty-five days a year because our time is not His time.

A thousand years is like a day to God, yet we blink and remain in the same cycles, same distractions, same pain, same grief, same mindset, and same distance from Him.

“But do not let this one fact escape your notice, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like one day.”
— 2 Peter 3:8 NASB

Therefore, the noise of life will always compete for our attention, but God continues calling His people to seek Him, know Him, discern His voice, and remain connected to Him.

Pray always.
Read His Word.
Allow Him to lead.

It is the best decision I have ever made in life.

He is the Alpha and Omega, the First and the Last.

It all starts and ends with Him.

And when we truly, truly know Him, we will recognize His voice even in the midst of a noisy, loud, ugly, obnoxious, gruesome, uncaring, and unapologetic world.

But guess what? He is with you. Jesus said:

“Peace I leave you, My peace I give you; not as the world gives, do I give to you. Do not let your hearts be troubled, nor fearful.”
— John 14:27 NASB

Memory Song: Background by Lecrae featuring Andy Mineo