Neutrality Is Not an Option: Listening to God in a Divided World

By Theoloscience

If Today You Hear His Voice

Listening, Returning, and Living Undivided in a Noisy World

There’s a line from Psalm 95 that doesn’t just ask — it pleads:
“If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.”

It’s an invitation with urgency. Not a threat, not a reprimand — but a wake-up call. Because the voice of God is speaking even now.

Not just in ancient Scripture. Not just in cathedrals or behind stained glass.
He speaks in the silence between distractions, in the restlessness of our hearts, and even — perhaps especially — in the moments we’d rather ignore.

But the question is not whether God is speaking.
The question is: Are we still listening?

When Hearts Grow Hard

In the first reading from the prophet Jeremiah (7:23–28), we hear the sorrow of a God who has loved His people faithfully, generation after generation.
He sent them prophets. He offered them His law. He walked with them through deserts and defeats. And still, they turned away.

“They obeyed not, nor did they pay heed… they turned their backs, not their faces, to me.”

What a haunting phrase: turning their backs, not their faces.
It’s more than disobedience. It’s disconnection.
The people of God had become strangers to the very One who delivered them.

And is that not one of the great dangers of our time?
We have unprecedented access to information, but little space for contemplation.
We claim our own truth, but forget the Voice of Truth Himself.
We speak often — but listen rarely.

And slowly, quietly, our hearts grow hard.

The Kingdom Is Already Here

In the Gospel (Luke 11:14–23), Jesus does something unmistakably good: He frees a man possessed by a demon. He gives him his voice back. But instead of joy, He’s met with suspicion.
Some accuse Him of partnering with the devil. Others demand more proof.

Jesus responds with piercing clarity:

“Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters.”

In other words: neutrality is not an option.
We can’t be undecided bystanders in the drama of salvation.
We are either cooperating with grace or resisting it.
Either walking in communion or falling into division.

And yet — here is the hope:

“If it is by the finger of God that I drive out demons, then the Kingdom of God has come upon you.”

The Kingdom isn’t some distant promise.
It is breaking in now — with every act of healing, every surrender of pride, every return of a hardened heart to its Creator.

The Voice That Restores

This moment, today, is not too late.

“Even now,” says the Lord in Joel 2:12,
“return to me with your whole heart.”

Not just with good intentions. Not just with rituals or routines.
With your whole heart — honest, bruised, tired, searching.

Because when we stop listening to the voice of God, our hearts grow hard, our words lose truth, and our homes become divided. But when we return — even now — we find something greater than we imagined:
Strength. Healing. Unity.
We find the Kingdom that is already here, already moving, already calling.

So if today — this day — you hear His voice…

Don’t wait for a sign.
Don’t wait for the noise to die down.
Don’t wait for tomorrow.

Harden not your heart.