Knowing Him Daily

17.March.2026

Yesterday we talked about sitting in the wilderness, quiet, still, waiting. And we established that quietness is something the flesh can produce on its own. Determined people do it all the time. But stillness, true stillness, that is something different entirely. That comes from somewhere deeper than your mind and your will. It originates in your spirit.

That matters more than most of us realize, because here is something we do not say often enough. You are not a human being who happens to have a spirit. You are a spirit being who is temporarily housed in a human body. Genesis 1:27 says you were created in His image, and God is Spirit. That means at your core, you are spirit first. And your spirit connects with His Spirit.

That is the higher purpose of stillness. Not just to calm your nerves or organize your thoughts or start your day on the right foot, although all of that happens. The deeper purpose is connection. Spirit to spirit. Him and you, and that connection is what everything else in your day is meant to flow from.

The Bible is clear that time spent with Him early, before the noise, before the demands, before the world gets its hands on your attention, is not optional. It is the engine and is what drives everything else. Intimacy creates room for connection, and connection is what makes the rest of it possible.

Here is what I have learned about that connection. When you are truly connected, when you have drawn near and He has drawn near and that spirit to Spirit exchange has happened, and things become easy. Not effortless, there is still effort involved, but easy in the way Jesus described in Matthew 11:30, “For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.” Easy because He is carrying it through you. Light because it was His idea to begin with.

That is actually the gauge for that. When something feels like you are dragging it alone, when the weight of it is crushing and nothing is flowing, it is worth pausing and asking yourself honestly, whose idea was this? Is this Him moving in and through me or am I doing this in my own strength? Because when it is truly His, His yoke fits. It does not chafe. This is not to say that it will not take effort or courage or sacrifice because it absolutely will. But if you have never done something that was genuinely His idea, His way, pursued from that still connected place, you are in for a pleasant surprise.

Now here is where all of this leads. John 10:27, “My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.” Hearing His voice is not reserved for prophets and preachers. It is the normal experience of anyone who belongs to Him and has cultivated the stillness to recognize it.

Let me tell you a story. Growing up I took square dance lessons. In square dancing you have a caller, someone who directs the dancers through every step and every move. Week after week you tune your ears to that one voice until it becomes unmistakable. Mine was Lamar Podbevsek. Distinctive name, an even more distinctive voice, and a country twang that I would know anywhere.

Some years ago my sister and I were at an outdoor hot springs in the middle of winter. Steam everywhere. Crowded. You could barely see your hand in front of your face. And then I heard it. That voice. Cutting right through the fog and the noise and the crowd. I could not see him, but I did not need to. I called out his name. The reply came back in that unmistakable country twang, who in world wants to know? I followed the sound of his voice through that steamy crowd and sure enough, there was Lamar and his wife.

I could not see anything. But I knew that voice.

That is exactly what Jesus means in John 10:27. You do not need perfect conditions to recognize His voice. You do not need the fog to lift or the noise to stop or everything around you to settle down. You just need to have spent enough time with Him that when He speaks, something in your spirit stands up and says, I know that voice.

Elijah learned this in 1 Kings 19:12. After the wind and the earthquake and the fire, God was not in any of it. He was in “a still small voice.” He was in the quiet. And Isaiah 30:21 promises, “Your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, ‘This is the way, walk in it.’” Behind you. Not ahead of you where you have to chase it down, right there, close enough to whisper.

He is not shouting from a distance. He is speaking from proximity. The question is whether we are still enough, connected enough, to hear it.

Get still and then stay connected. He is already speaking.

Make today count and see you tomorrow.