SOUL
LANGUAGE
BY W. L. G.
There is a language
which is neither written nor spoken, and yet, which is positive in its tone,
clear in its accents, convincing to the soul, and far more abiding than the
words of the most eloquent orator that the word has known.
In the Bible we find
words like these, “Thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried
unto Thee;” and again, “Verily God hath heard me; He hath attended to the voice
of my prayer.” As we lift our hearts to God our prayers are heard by Him, and
how soon the answer comes; while we are “yet speaking” a responsive Voice is
heard. Is it but the echo of our own voices, hollow and unsatisfying? Nay, it
is the Voice direct from on High; the Spirit’s response to our souls.
How sweet to feel that
our faintest prayer is heard even though it is merely a soul-whisper; it is
heard by God as distinctly as though it were a shout. And He has said, “Before
they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.”-(Isa.
lxv:24.)
The unregenerate soul
cannot comprehend God’s language as does the Christian. In I Cor. ii:14, we
read, “The natural man recieveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they
are foolishness unto him; neither can he know them, because they are
spiritually discerned.”
A person is very apt to
feel that what he does not see and
hear, others do not see and hear, but it is impossible for the natural heart to
perceive the wisdom of God. The unregenerate man cannot understand the language
which God speaks to a converted soul; and, again, the merely justified believer
cannot comprehend the more exalted communion which God holds with those who are
sanctified by His Spirit.
What in inestimable privilege is that of talking with the
great “I Am,” and what beautiful answers He vouchsafes to the queries and
requests of those who fully trust Him. Many, many times have I undertaken to
translate this heavenly language into the language of earth, but have never
found words adequate to express the deep meaning of God’s communications to the
sanctified soul. Until I learned practically the meaning of this higher
Christian life I knew very little of the marvelous beauties of this soul
language.
