Dale Pollard
The most powerful Sound Surveillance System (SOSUS) is probably the most famous long-range listening device. It can detect faint sounds like submarine engines or whale calls from up to 3,100 miles away.
The barn owl, arguably, has the best hearing out of all the known animals (the author has no idea how this was determined/tested). Their ears allow them to calculate exactly where a sound is coming from—even in total darkness. They can even hear a mouse’s heartbeat beneath a layer of snow.
Have you ever wondered how God hears every prayer? Jonah prayed to God from the belly of a fish—and God heard (Jonah 2.1-2). At the end of the chapter, we find that God not only heard, but He answered by commanding the creature to release Jonah (2.10).
If humans, created in the image of God, can produce a technology capable of detecting sound thousands of miles away and our minds are a fraction of our Creator– reason leads us to believe that God can do far more. We’ve got examples in nature of incredible detection in the owl and the whale, but even better, we’ve got God’s Word.
“Out of the depths I cry to you, Lord; Lord, hear my voice. Let your ears be attentive to my cry for mercy” (Ps. 130.1-2).
“The eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears are attentive to their cry” (Ps. 34.15).
“If you do and they cry out to me, I will certainly hear their cry” (Ex. 22.23).
“…and if we know that He hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him” (Jn 9.31b).
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