Ever have one of those days when the phone is ringing so much off the hook that we want to reenact commercial-character-isms, rip the cords out of the wall, parade the phone over your heads and scream in anguish as you throw that sucker into the street, laughing as cars run over it?
Or you are the desperate person that is staring at your cell thinking to yourself, "Any day now. Any minute now, he's going to call me. I just have to be patient, just wait. Any, AHA! IT'S BUZZING! Hello? Hello!? Whaa- Mom?! No, I am not sitting here waiting for the phone call... No, I did not sound desperate when I answered you. Whatever, well that's just your opinion. Yes. Goodbye." *Click* "Aaaaanyyyy day now..."
As I sit here doing my time for reception at work, I couldn't help but think about all the people I talk to who say they can't hear the voice of God. As I thought about it, I got this funny vision in my mind of God using the ultimate, touch-screen, indestructible, state of the art, iPhone on molecular-technical-steroids cellphone. [Yes I know some of you are going to tell me he doesn't need one. Well, just hang tight with me for a few minutes.] It never drops calls, it never goes beneath five bars of service, it's quick delivery, and it works in any and every galaxy. But what about our cellphones? They suck in comparison. We are constantly losing calls, we go five feet outside of our cities and we have no service, delivery is slower than a snail in some cases, and it only works on earth-and even then it doesn't always work.
Now, let's say that God wants to call us up because he has an amazing word of encouragement for us. What if he can't reach us because there's no service? Why is there no service? You're out of touch because you've passed the boundary line. He wants to deliver you in your time of need, but he can't because something is slowing Him down. But what on earth could stop or slow God?
Well, we could...
Too many times have I found myself in one of the two scenarios mentioned above. I'm either so frustrated that so much is going on and all this stuff is being thrown at me, that I cut myself off from him. The constantly ringing phone represents God trying to warn me not to do this or that. It's not because he wants to show off his phone, but because he knows what the consequences of that action will be. But I don't want to listen to him. So, what do I do? I throw out the communication. I stop reading my Bible, I stop praying, I stop listening to the still small whisper of the Holy Spirit-my conscious. And then when I'm in trouble and I want to hear his voice I sit idly waiting for him to call me! Why should he be the one to initiate conversation after I shut him off by throwing him to the pavement? Sometimes he does initiate, but not in the way we want him to. What if the mom in this scene represents God using a friend to talk to us about our situation? Well I don't want to listen to her because it's not his voice, it's not God talking to me. But it is, it's just through someone else.
If you are struggling in hearing the voice of the Lord I want to ask you to challenge yourselves. Ask yourself, and be brutally honest, did I cut off communication from God? Did I throw him to the pavement? Or am I simply ignoring His voice which is coming from another source?
He is always talking to you, he loves you too much to ignore you. Pick up the phone, initiate the conversation, he misses talking to you.
Much Love,
Saint
Still need $1,920 for my Philippines trip and a new laptop!
Several families and friends blessed me with $480 this week!
Awesomeness. (:
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