Our Father's Voice
Being made like
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It can’t be the voice all the time, or else it would just be mind control. Maybe that is a potential tell… just ourselves, and that’s ok.
Still, a father is never far off. Not while on a mountain climb — depends on where you are, in life, in God, in body. If on a mountain, upwards climbing, you should be able to hear his voice and see his frame close by, guiding you up safely, and the sound of his tools and boots colliding with the rockface.
If in the fields, and at home in peaceful places, perhaps the sound of his humming while at his work in the distance, and the sound of his steps as he approaches to bring you what he has crafted.
Perhaps something like his approval and hand on your shoulder when you show him what you’ve made.
The voice at all times would make it impossible for God to one day say to us, “Truly, my boy, you are like me.” For a voice superimposing, at all times, negates the ability of the being to become as their father is in their own freedom.
To be recognizable to the father is to have become like him, more and more, over time — yes, in response to his prompting and mercy and providence, but also of your own accord. There is a son to be loved, and that son, to be himself, must choose love and, in love, to grow.
If the voice consumes us entirely, we cannot be a self, let alone our own selves, and it is impossible to love what is not real.
So a father will speak to you, and help you, but not all the time. You can become like dad and think dad’s thoughts on your own, over time. But yes, your father can always break in. But the drama and the dramatic intrusion is supposed to fade as you grow — this is natural. The simple cooperation is the Christian goal. The synergy in all love and the theotic state, progressing into a maturity that needs no spectacle.
His Child
To hear the voice all the time would be to remove our ability to become more fully his sons and daughters. To act as if he could never speak, even in dramatic and drastic ways, is to remove his ability to be our father.
Nearness
To be near to God is not to hear him all the time, but to be like him and sound like him yourself, even in your interior, for there will come a day when there is nowhere which the light does not touch, nowhere that you have not been made in his likeness, no hidden way in you, for all that you are, all that you have, is in him made fully alive.
Glory Greater Than Moses
Some say to be near to God is to hear him all the time. This is not the case. To be near to God is to be like him — your will is now the same as his.
Moses spoke to God face to face, but Christ came that we would be made like him in all things. This is a greater glory.
Our faces may not shine due to a good exposure to his glory which is exterior… for the Lord now comes interior, into the holy of holies in the soul… and our hearts shall burn, and so the being in his entirety is set ablaze. Come and take your seat upon the throne of our heart, oh King of Kings, oh Ancient of Days.
Make us like you, Abba.
For my reader,
I share these things because I want the very best life for you;
the very best life in Christ.
This is my prayer
and these;
these are my Confessions.