The Still Small Voice

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Dec 2, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 46.

The Still Small Voice

A WONDERFUL flow of words on the part of a preacher is no evidence that the Spirit of God is with him. The tongues of men or of angels are but as sounding brass or tinkling cymbals, without that love which keeps every known precept of God. 1 John 5:3. Noise is no evidence of power. An empty vessel makes more sound than a full one, but the full one weighs more. In these days of religious excitement, it is well to bear in mind one instance in the life of Elijah. Having fled to Horeb, the mount of God, from the wrath of Jezebel, he goes forth upon the mountain at the divine summons to wait for God. A mighty wind rent the mountain, but God was not in the wind. Then followed an earthquake, then a fire; but God was in neither earthquake nor fire. Then came a “still small voice,” and the still small voice was God’s. The wind, the earthquake, the fire, could inspire fear and dread and excitement, but the still small voice brought the effectual message to the man of God.