Can You Hear?
Posted by appolus on December 19, 2025
Can You Hear?
To breathe in the beauty of God’s creation, while walking with the Creator, is to inhale something of the rarified air of heaven. To listen to the quietness is to set our spirit at ease. Noise is the great distraction of this world, the noise of current events, the noise of the TV and the radio, the never-ending noise of the device in our hand, now intimately connected to our ears in a constant stream of stimulation. It dulls the soul and renders the spirit deaf to the still, small voice of the Master.
It is the great tragedy of our age. In such a place it becomes impossible to “seek ye first the Kingdom of God,” for the Kingdom of God is fundamentally still. Who, in our age, has ears to hear what the Spirit would whisper to our souls?
Tell me… can you hear the willows whisper on the wisp?
Can you hear the wings of the swallow as it sweeps through the soft-dying light of dusk?
Can you hear the river murmur as it winds its ancient path beneath the gathering dusk?
Can you hear the sigh of the pines as the evening wind passes through their crowns?
If you can hear these things, then perhaps you can hear the beating heart of God
and find His rhythm.
Many years ago, I walked with a very heavy burden of a particular situation, the constant noise of it filling every step. I did not even notice when the Lord was no longer in the midst of my thoughts, so completely had the season overtaken me. Then, breaking through that long silence of my spirit amidst the great noise of my flesh, came a still, small whisper: “I miss you.” Its simplicity undid me. Only then did I see how long the noise had carried me away. Through tears I answered, “I miss You too.” And in that sacred moment, after a season of distance, we were together again.
A Call To The Remnant 
1pursuit said
Years ago, Richard Foster stated that the devil’s three main weapons against us today are hurry, noise, and crowds. Our hand-held devices now bring those to us incessantly. We need no longer go out to find them.
How vitally important it is for those who would know their God to lay all of these aside! How few there are who are willing to do so. Our God can be sought and found in the quiet, the stillness, the solitude. He can be sought but He cannot be found amidst the hurry, noise, and crowds.
Thank you for sending this out to us, Frank. Good stuff, as always. God bless you, brother Frank!
appolus said
God bless you brother!