“A little while longer and the world will see Me no more, but you will see Me. Because I live, you will live also.” John 14:19
The basis of our being compatible with the Lord’s voice is our life-union with Him in spirit. This union is expressed in the Lord’s words, “Because I live, you will live also.” We live because He lives. It is that simple. First Corinthians 6:17 reveals that this union with the Lord is in the realm of our spirit. We are joined to the Lord and are one spirit with Him. This joining is the basis of the Lord’s utterance “Because I live, you will live also.” He lives within us in our spirit, and we live in union with Him. This life-union issues in a life-consciousness. So we can know and experience the very consciousness of the Lord’s life within us. It is by this life consciousness that we learn to be compatible with His life-voice.
This experiential reality is also expressed in John 4:14: “But whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into eternal life.” When the Lord said, “the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water,” He was referring to our life-union with Him. When we receive Christ, an artesian well is established in the deepest part of our being — our spirit. When this life-union, or inner well, springs up within us, it produces the consciousness of His life in the many facets of our daily life — from our inner thinking and motives to our outward behavior and deeds. It is this life-consciousness that constitutes the Lord’s voice. When we go along with this consciousness, we are being compatible with God.