Signs vs the still small voice
"Jesus was supreme sanity. He went off into no visions, no dreams. He
got His guidance through prayer as you and I do. He got guidance when
in control of His faculties, and not when out of control as in dreams.
I did not say that God may not guide through a vision or dream; but if
He does, and it will be seldom, and it will be because He cannot get
ahold of our normal processes to guide them. God is found most clearly
and beneficially in the normal rather than in the abnormal. Jesus is
the Normal, for He is the Norm." -The Way, by E. Stanley Jones as
quoted by Willard
"Signs are given to us, because when God meets us on a level where we
operate...In guidance, when God shows us a sign, it doesn't mean we've
received a final answer. A sign means we're on the way. On a highway
we may pass a sign saying, "New York: 100 miles." The sign doesn't
mean we've reached New York, but it tells us we're on the right road."
"God wants to bring us beyond the point where we need signs to discern
His guiding hand. Satan cannot counterfeit the peace of God or the
love of God dwelling in us. When Christ's abiding presence becomes our
guide, then guidance becomes an almost unconcious response to the
gentle moving of His Holy Spirit within us." - Take Another Look at
Guidance by Bob Mumford, as quoted by Dallas Willard in Hearing God
