When I was doing a degree in music technology, I was told about the ‘signal to noise ratio’. Wikipedia defines this as “a measure ... to quantify how much a signal has been corrupted by noise”. The signal is the desired sound and the noise is what can potentially obscure it.

For instance, if you’ve ever recorded your voice onto a dictaphone, played it back and wondered why there’s so much hiss and hum on the tape, it’s because they’ve often got a terrible signal to noise ratio!

We live in such a busy world, it’s easy for noise to clutter up our lives and drown out God’s communication with us, both literal noise (tvs, traffic, machinery etc.) and metaphorical (different aspects of our working/social/home lives coming before spending time with God).

What’s your signal to noise ratio with God been like lately?

Do you wish you could spend more time listening for God?