Speaking can have its brightness when truth is spoken. High may be the reward for not speaking the truth and engaging in praising the powerful. Then the words lose their voice and become gradually dumb. Only if the strength of God guides us we will be able to speak: “Mene: God has measured your sovereignty and put an end to it; Tekel: you have been weighed in the balance and found wanting…”
Another thing that can hinder our speech is lack of endurance. Our words may carry hasty conclusions rather than truth when we are moved by prejudices and pride. Then, when the eloquence and a wisdom are ‘given’ in time we may not be able to listen.
Communal, elitist traditionalist attitudes also remove truth form our hearts. Communalism, and conservatism speak for power and business, they only have the language of God and faith. They proclaim that their believes which are of past lives for ever, their views are alive but God is dead. The 'dividing curtain' between God and people will surely make dividing walls between the 'holy' and the 'ordinary' people, and among the holy, the elite and the common.
In all the above hindrances we can clearly see that ‘religiosity’ can still be there; more religious, but less and less godly, human, and natural. Just as our roots begin from being natural, our voice too begin from our roots. When we learn from the voices of nature and from other human in humility and sincerity, we both listen to the voice of God and prepare to be enveloped by the Word.
The Word became human, not a super-human; he had the voice of God, not of a Super-GOD.
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