This happened one evening in church. My dad had rented a local older church building, and we would meet there once a week in the evening. I remember walking with my family the 7 or 8 blocks to church in the dark, which was about halfway across town!
This particular evening was not special in any way I can remember. I don't even recall the message preached nor the songs sung. But I do remember the voice. This was the only time I have ever heard such a voice to this day.
We were singing from the hymn book, standing in the pews. There were people beside and in front of me, but not too close. Maybe 50 to 100 people came that night.
As we sang, this voice rang out loud and clear. It was louder than the singing, but not yelling, just loud as if amplified. It was a strong male voice. There are a few words spoken in a sentence of another language.
At first I looked around thinking someone was talking to me. But everyone was singing as if nothing was happening. A strange feeling came over me. Several seconds later the voice spoke again, repeating the exact same phrase as the first time, but in a very insistent tone.
Again I looked around, all singing, no one paying any attention to me not the voice. Somehow I knew that I was the only one hearing this voice, but the words were foreign. I knew that the voice wanted me to repeat the words, I just knew. But I was scared. What did it mean?
The words sounded sort of German but not any thing I could recognize. Then a few seconds later, a third time. This time even more insistent the same words were spoken. It was maybe three or four words only in a definite phrase.
I quietly spoke the words as best I could one time, surely fumbling the pronunciation. And that was it. No one around me knew what had happened, the song ended and it was over. The voice never returned. Never to this day.
What are those words? I have no idea. The words themselves are long forgotten, and I never told anyone what happened. Perhaps I will never know what the voice had me say so insistently.
What was that about? I have no idea. Seemed no purpose, not that I can perceive. Nothing happened before not after the event. Nothing significant.
Should I have said the words? I can't be sure, but I knew in the moment that it was expected for me to say it. No doubt at all. Who was it speaking to me? I have no idea.
Sometimes life gives more questions than answers.
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