Joshua 0031

Trust the Inner Voice

Do you really want to be converted?  Are you willing to be transformed?  Or do you keep clutching your old ways of life with one hand while with the other you beg people to help you change?

Conversion is certainly not something you can bring about yourself.  It is not a question of willpower.  You have to trust the inner voice that shows the way.  You know that inner voice.  You turn to it often.  But after you have heard with clarity what you are asked to do, you start raising questions, fabricating objections, and seeking everyone else’s  opinion.  Thus you become entangled in countless often contradictory thoughts, feeling, and ideas and lose touch with the God in you.  And you end up dependent on all the people you have gathered around you.

Only by attending constantly to the inner voice can you be converted to a new life of freedom and joy.

(The Inner Voice of Love, page 6)

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I experience depression and anxiety more frequently than I would care to admit.  I do not like the terminal reality of my mortality and limitations.  If there is an opportunity to transcend this heavy, binding world I would be a fool not to seek it out.  Yet my trust falters and my fear masquerades as the voice of God.   Often times it seems that trusting God runs parallel to trusting myself with God.  When I get in the habit of second guessing my ability to connect with Him, that tendency bleeds over into the union between me and  the Lord of my covenanted life.  My areas of powerlessness must be answered with the growth of my intimacy with He is infinitely powerful.