Voices in Our Heads

I recently found out about a musical called Be More Chill, in which a High Schooler named Jeremy puts an A.I. in his brain so it can give him relational and life advice, which, by the end of the musical, he also gets from his friends, family, and other peers. In the last song of the musical, Voices in my Head, Jeremy sings about how he has several voices in his head, telling him what to do and how to act, but he doesn't worry about it. As he says, he can just deal with the voices and/or tune them out and make up his own mind anyway because as he put it, "of the voices in my head, the loudest one is mine!"

Like Jeremy, we all have voices in our heads. Some are from our friends, families, and peers, and some are from beyond the veil. We can never make these voices go away completely. Both heaven and hell and everyone else will always try to influence us, whether we want them to or not, but we can choose whether or not we listen to them, and we can choose what decisions we make, regardless of what the voices in our heads say.

It's kind of a bummer that we're stuck with these voices, even the ones we don't want, but we can tune them out and ignore them. Regardless of how others try to influence us, we can and should make our own decisions. Of course, there are some voices we should listen to, including the voice of the Spirit, but even then, we shouldn't just obey any of the voices in our heads blindly. We can choose to trust the Spirit and heed its promptings, but we should do so because we choose to, not because He tells us to. We should never surrender our agency, not even to God. The various voices in our heads can give us welcome or unwelcome advice, but it's always up to us to choose which voices we listen to or ignore and to ultimately make up our own minds.