Soon after I got my
first cell phone I was taking my oldest daughter to lunch one day. I took one
of my kids to lunch each week to spend some time with each of them
individually. I had picked her up from school and we were going to get a burger
when my cell phone rang. It was the office and a church member had just been
taken to the hospital. As we rushed through lunch my daughter looked at my cell
phone and remarked, “I do not like that thing already.” One form of
communication had interrupted another and I too could see a potential problem.
We have so many ways
to communicate with each other these days. Everyone seems to carry a cell
phone. Plus we have text, email, and messaging through various social media
such as Facebook and Twitter. In fact, some people prefer messaging because you
can respond on your own time without feeling you are a slave to other people’s
desires to communicate. I feel their pain.
I wonder sometime if
we are aware that God is also communicating with us through multiple means. He
speaks to us through many of the ways we speak to each other. He calls me on
the phone through the encouraging words of friends. He texts me through His
Word, the Bible, and books Christians write. He speaks to me through music on
Christian radio. He even uses social media. When I read the posts people write
that spoke to them, He also speaks to me.
I have a friend who
lost his wife to cancer last year. He writes a prayer on Facebook nearly every
day that comes directly from his heart. Many days as I have read the prayer of
his heart God has also spoken to mine.
Prayer is our side of
the conversation with God. He speaks to us in many ways. How many ways do we
speak to Him? We pray in the morning, at meals, at night. We can offer prayers
of service because doing the work of God is a prayer. We can communicate with
God through our hands, hearts, thoughts, actions, and words.
We pray for
Revival in our Church but have you given any thought about how much you want
Revival? Have you thought about how you can communicate your heart to the only
one who can bring Revival to us?
Paul said, “Let the
word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all
wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your
hearts to God. And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name
of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.” Colossians
3:17 (ESV)
Do not just talk.
Communicate with God and listen with your eyes and ears as He communicates with
you.
Bro. Robin
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