Voice in the Breeze

"Then God blessed them, and said to them...." (Gen. 1:28)
Can you imagine the uninhibited voice of God speaking to you for the very first time? What a frightful, terrible, wonderful sound--this voice that spoke light, and atmosphere, and trees, and fish and birds, and animals, and stars and galaxies into existence. This is the same voice that a mere page later the first humans are running from--His voice that visisted them in the breeze of the day (Gen. 3:8). This same voice speaks to us through these words that we see on printed pages that have come to us through thousands of parchments translated into various languages and preserved through meticulous processes. God is passionate about speaking to us. Not because we are His ultimate focus--He is His ultimate focus--but because He loves to be in communion with His Bride. His Voice had power to create all that is. That same Voice has power today in the incredible and the mundane.

Minor Prophets

"I will stand my watch and set myself on the rampart, and watch to see what He will say to me, and what I will answer when I am corrected.
Then the LORD answered me and said: "Write the vision and make it plain on tablets, that he may run who reads it.
For the vision is yet for an appointed time; but at the end it will speak, and it will not lie. Though it tarries, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry."

Habakkuk 2:1-3