Like many people today, that old man considered the words of a brother secondary to a supernatural revelation. Meanwhile, God, who had clearly been unimpressed by his seventy-week fast, viewed his newfound willingness to take counsel from a brother as a mark of humility and surrender. Sometimes, no matter how much we might pray and even fast for a supernatural word from God, or a dramatic discovery in Scripture, the Lord refuses to oblige. Instead, he waits for us to humble ourselves like Naaman, C. S. Lewis, and that old desert father, to seek his voice “merely” through another person.
