Then he was told, “Go, stand on the mountain at attention before GOD. GODwill pass by.” A hurricane wind ripped through the mountains and shattered the rocks before GOD, but GOD wasn’t to be found in the wind; after the wind an earthquake, but GOD wasn’t in the earthquake; and after the earthquake fire, but GOD wasn’t in the fire; and after the fire a gentle and quiet whisper. When Elijah heard the quiet voice, he muffled his face with this great cloak, went to the mouth of the cave, and stood there. A quiet voice asked, “So Elijah, now tell me, what are you doing here?” Elijah said it again, “I’ve been working my heart out for GOD, the GOD-of-the-Angel-Armies, because the people of Israel have abandoned your covenant, destroyed your places of worship, and murdered your prophets. I’m the only one left, and now they’re trying to kill me.”
— 1 Kings 19:11-14
The Message
The Truth of Our Being in the Still Small Voice … p 47
The ever-present veil that conceals the Truth of our Being, that keeps us from knowing ourself, is of our own making; a man-made desecration of the soul. It has its genesis in our failure to acknowledge our two separate though interdependent beings: a) the divinely immortal soul and b) the physical body.
Throughout life, with little or no thought otherwise, we allow custom to instill in us aught but the ways of the world, of itself destructive of our inborn harmony. Meanwhile, the life-giving soul finds itself gravely undernourished. Left unattended, we come to know a life all too often troubled with chaos and sorrow.
Were we but to listen, we would hear God’s “… still small voice …” warning us of the disquiet within. Once having heard, we are at once overcome with a deeper sense of calm, certain of God’s overwhelming presence. We know then that all is well.
— Garry D. Kilbourn
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