Why is it so difficult to hear God's voice?

 

Why is it so difficult to hear God's voice?

Man must be prepared in his components to be able to listen. If those parts that allow him to hear the voice of God are absent, that voice is not heard.

Ad illud enim hominis ita loquitur, quod in homine ceteris, quibus homo constat, est melius, et quo ipse Deus solus est melior.
For he (God) speaks thus to that of man, that in the man is better than the other things by which he is composed, of which God himself alone is better. (Saint Augustine De Civitate Dei, XI, 2),

God's word cannot be heard then by everybody, because not everybody chooses to hear that word, not everybody uses his free will to approach himself to those components that make him eligible to listen to God's word.

They prefer to avert their hearing, their will, their interest from those components and address their intentionality to other coarser words: those that dominate the saeculum [1].

Therefore listening to God's word is a training to develop those components, because those components are the medium that let you hear it.

Profecto ea sui parte est propinquior superiori Deo, qua superat inferiores suas, quas etiam cum pecoribus communes habet
Certainly, in that part, he is nearer to the Superior God, in virtue of that part he surpasses his inferiors (parts) which he also has in common with the flocks. (Ibid.)

We see that the more the man dives himself into the dis-tractions of the saeculum the more he becomes similar to an animal and the more he loses the possibility to hear God's word.

That is why I am completely contrary to accepting the sanctification of man when is included in the transversal category "people/folk".

Folks are made of individuals and many of them are incapable to look up, beyond the propaganda of the saeculum that keeps them enslaved to the inferior parts of themselves.

[1] On the Saint Augustine concept of saeculum https://princasvilniuje.blogspot.com/2022/02/il-concetto-di-saeculum-in-santagostino.html