Voices in My Head?

I love the ministry and music of KSBJ. Not only do they give me something to do while I'm in the car, but I am certain that they draw people to Christ. Listening to KSBJ brings me to a place of worship and often reminds me of something that I need to hear. Their music is the type of music that I don't mind getting stuck in my head. Then Jesus is stuck in my head.

I love KSBJ, but I don't love change. For weeks, KSBJ has been talking about "powerful change." I'm not a fan of most of the change. Joey and Coppelia moving to the afternoon? I had just gotten used to them in the morning. Susan O'Donnell back on the morning show, but without Mike Kankelfritz? I'm not a fan right now, but I think that I can get used to. Then you have the really "powerful change" that should be called "powerful addition." Really nothing changed for me...or for most of their listening audience.

What I'm really not a fan of are their new jingles. They just don't sound right. Everything from their KSBJ jingle to the Houston weather jingle. It all changed and I don't like it.

Now, I'm about to say one more thing that I'm not a fan of, but I feel like I need to step aside and reiterate that I really do love KSBJ and I'm really not as averse to all this change as it might seem.

Now that I've gotten that out of the way, I take a minor issue with one of their commercials. If you're a regular listener, you've heard it many times. It's the one that talks about the voices you hear. One shouts, one whispers. You know the one. The implication is that God is always whispering and the world is always shouting.

This is minor, but it got me to thinking about how God speaks. First of all, the Gospel in no way whispers. The Gospel of Jesus shouts just as loud and louder than anything else out there. Nothing speaks louder than His kind of sacrificial love. It is a loud and in your face kind of message of love.

This is not to say God doesn't "whisper". Of course he does. Just look at Elijah. He looked for God in the loud and amazing things of nature. God wasn't in any of those. Where did Elijah find him? Whispering in the wind. Sure God whispers. However, I don't think the issue is whether or not God is whispering or shouting; He does both. The issue is what we are choosing to listen to. Even if God is shouting, it matters not if you deliberately choose to listen to the whisper. Sometimes we concentrate so hard on the whisper that we miss the shout.

So the question isn't: "Is God shouting or whispering?" Rather the question is: "Are you listening to the right voice?" Focus on him. With all of the other competing voices to listen to, make the effort to focus on Jesus. He may be whispering, but the message of the Gospel never does.

Remember who you are.