God always wants to be with us.  He desires to share himself with us through Jesus by his Spirit. However, we now live in a noisy world, and our lives may be very noisy.  This noise may be external through all that surrounds us, or the internal noise of our thoughts and feelings.  We may be full of noisy ideas about God, resulting in noisy and negative feelings about ourselves. By God’s grace, we must learn to listen to him amid all this noise. God always wants to tell us about himself, as the one who is always for us. 

God can break through all the noise. He does so as the Living Word speaks to us personally, opening the way for us to know who God really is. As we are attentive to the Living Word, God connects us with himself as the One who loves in freedom.  Too often, we miss God himself as he speaks to us.  We are not as attentive and responsive as we should be, Nevertheless, God always wants to meet with us by speaking personally to us in love.  We are often distracted away from him, but he is never distracted away from us.  We may not be attentive to him, but he is always fully attentive to us.  We may often fail to speak to him, but he never stops speaking to us. His speaking reveals his heart, telling us about his loving intentions for us and how he wants to be with us. His speaking is also an invitation to come home to himself.  We are to be attentive and responsive so that we do not miss God.