This is what the apostle Paul has in mind when he says, in his sermon on Mars Hill in Athens, that God has so arranged our world that we should seek the Lord and—as the Jerusalem Bible nicely translates it—“by feeling [our] way toward him, succeed in finding him. Yet in fact he is not far from any of us, since it is in him that we live, and move, and exist” (Acts 17:27-28). Since God is not far, God hears us when we speak. When he speaks, we can hear him.
