The voice of God and the Word of God

God's voice may be heard in many places:

• In the intricacy, beauty, power, regularity, design and power of his physical creation, for the heavens declare the glory of God ...
• In the inner voices of dreams, conscience and intuition as his Spirit whispers to us ...
• In the words of Christian or even non-Christian people, for God can speak truth even through Balaam's ass or the devil.

God's Word is found in just one place.

• It is in the words of the Bible as men were carried along by the Spirit of God and led to write the God-breathed words that are read in Scripture.

The wise person attends to God's voice as found above and does not despise it just because it is not in Scripture or because there is a clearer and more sure word in Scripture..

The same wise person also tests and interprets God's voice through the Scripture, precisely because it is God's Word, guaranteed by his Spirit and speaking with the clarity of God-breathed language.