Devotional #4- Day 4: Listening for the Voices from the Shore

Opening Stillness

Pause and quiet your thoughts. Imagine turning down the volume on everything competing for your attention. Create space to listen. Ask God to help you notice His guidance - especially in small ordinary ways.

Reflection

Eventually, through tiny terrified scoots, we turned the boat back toward the dock. We listened. We moved. We survived.

Later, when life felt just as wobbly after moving to Northern Virginia, I noticed God working the same way. Through strangers, coworkers, neighbors—people who said one sentence at just the right time. God-whispers in human form.

Guidance often comes quietly. We hear it best when we calm our panic and listen.

Scripture

“Let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger.”
James 1:19 (ESV)

Soul Question

Who might God be using to speak wisdom into your life right now?

Prayer

God, quiet my heart so I can hear Your direction, even when it comes through ordinary people. Amen.