I just saw this today at The Good Life, and it really speaks to something I’ve been pondering recently. It’s from God’s Wisdom in Proverbs by Dan Phillips, which I haven’t read, nor do I know much about Dan Phillips, but I appreciate this quote:
“Listen” does not mean, here or anywhere else in Scripture, to harken to a subjective, mystical, murmury, semi-revelatory inner voice of God. God has no intention of turning our attention within ourselves, of urging us to seek after holy hunches and vaporous mumblings inside our own deluded hearts. He categorically condemns such orientation (Prov. 28:26; Jer. 17:9). God knows all too well that dense foolishness is “original factory equipment” in our fallen minds, thanks to Great-Great-Grandad Adam (Prov. 22:15).
No, God is not speaking of our listening to the inscrutable mumblings of some spirit, as if it were His Spirit. Rather, here and everywhere God is urging us to listen to the Word of God (cf. 1:23, 33; 16:20; contrast 28:9). The content makes this unavoidable. Solomon means the wise man to listen to the words he is writing. Internal, lowgrade, spiritual “sweet nothings” would have been far from the inspired king’s mind.
~Dan Phillips
God’s Wisdom in Proverbs
Stray Thoughts 
Barbara,
This is the first book I’ve read by Phillips, and I’m very much enjoying it so far. I was wanting to use it during our “Group Time” but much of the introduction is a bit over some of my Littles’ heads. 🙂 So, I’m working through it and will share what is more understandable for them, but I’d definitely like my older boys to read through this book. Btw, Ink really enjoyed Phillips’ The World Tilting Gospel.
He gave us enough information to follow; we don’t need to search inside our thinking to decipher His will.