HEARING THE VOICE OF GOD - A PERSONAL ASSESSMENT
It was sometime in the summer of 2010. My university was on my third-year first-semester break, so I had come home for the holiday. A young, vibrant choir boy who had learnt about "new creation realities" in my campus fellowship and wanted to be a better Christian, I prayed fairly frequently during that time. One afternoon during that holiday, I was praying and meditating in my room about how to become more "spiritually mature." I whined to God about how I was not growing spiritually, how I wanted to "do more exploits" for the Kingdom. And suddenly, I heard a voice telling me these exact words: "Spiritual maturity is gradual!" Exactly like that! It was so vivid, I thought somebody else was in the room, and I got up and turned around. It really was that vivid to me! It wasn't a special, earth-shattering voice. It was, rather, a very human-like but reassuring one. I surmised that it was God who had spoken to me and thanked him for answering...