by Dennis Gladden, By Green Pastures, ©2026
(Mar. 4, 2026) — The path of faith begins at God’s throne and wends through us on earth. God speaks, we hear, and faith arises.
The preceding post introduced the steps along this path. This article will focus on the first two: God speaking and our hearing.
God is not silent.
We say, “Seeing is believing.”
The Bible says, “We live by faith, not by sight” (2 Corinthians 5:7).
When Paul wrote this, he may have been thinking of God’s prohibition, “You shall not at all do as we are doing here today—every man doing whatever is right in his own eyes” (Deuteronomy 12:8).
Faith means we live by our ears, not our eyes.
This presumes, of course, that God speaks. The Bible takes this for granted.
In the beginning, God created, and the two—creating and speaking—were inseparable. No sooner are we told, “In the beginning God created” than we hear, “God said.”
Each day, before the work of creating began, there were these words, “And God said.”
This is a paramount truth for our culture, where evolutionary theory prevails. God has no say in evolution. There is no voice thundering, “Let…!” Starting from a ‘Big Bang,’ the universe now grinds through the ages.
In creation, God has a voice. He speaks. All that exists came into being and is sustained by His word.
And by His word, faith begins.
This means we must learn to recognize His voice, to know how and where He speaks.
Hebrews 1:1 reminds us that God speaks in many ways. These many ways prove Paul right when he says rebels “are without excuse” (Romans 1:20). We have no reason to think, “If only God had said something…”
God has spoken—many times and in many ways.
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