If we are Christian, we will have a concern about how to listen to God’s voice. Does God still speak to us? If so, how does he talk to us? If we do not hear the voice of God, what’s going to happen?

Job was an extraordinary person in the Bible. He was a “Blameless and upright man, and he believed that he knew about God better than anyone in his age.” Job said that God’s voice always came to him in a gentle whisper(Job 26:14). So he said that if God tried to speak to him within the thunder of his power, he would not understand it. Nevertheless, God spoke Job out of the storm, like a mighty thunder(38:1), he never expected that God spoke to him in that way. Even though God’s voice was different from speaking in the past and beyond Job’s understanding and belief, he could recognize God’s voice.

One thing that we can realize through Job is that the way of God’s voice may be far beyond our understanding and belief, God’s voice is crystal clear to us to perceive. And we can hear God’s voice not only with our ears but also with our hearts and eyes(42:5)”. 

There are several ways that God speaks to us.

1. According to Acts(2:17), we can meet God through visions and dreams. Listen to God’s voice through dreams? It is true. In 2007, Dudley Woodberry, a professor of Fuller Theological Seminary, published about 750 conversion stories from Muslims to Christianity. He said he was surprised because so many Muslims have experienced a dream of Jesus that let to their conversion. MISSION FRONTIERS magazine has reported around 25% of them experienced a dream before their conversion.
2. God speaks to us through our conscience. So our conscience becomes the witness of our heart and we can discern the right and wrong, and to do or not to do(Roman 2:15)
3. God speaks through His Word. We can communicate with God through the written Word of God, and it is Logos(2 Timothy 2:16).
4. God speaks to us through the living Word. The living Word of God is Rhema, and when the Word of God was proclaimed and moved by people, God speaks. When Jesus made Lazarus raise, he said in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out,” and the dead man came out. It is the living Word of God. 

However, if we don’t listen to God’s voice though He speaks to us in different ways, we might wander around Him and not enter His rest like Israelites. They didn’t listen to God’s voice and their disobedience caused to delay to enter into the Promise Land wandering in the desert for 40 years(Hebrews 3:7-11)

Here and now, we can get a chance to look back to think of the communication ways with God. God is God, who speaks to us with the crystal clear way for us to understand, so we should find out ways to have a deep conversation with Him because “God’s Word is a lamp to our feet and a light for our path(Psalms 119:105)”.