Lost signal – Lost connection
Isn’t it amazing what we can do with our cell phones these days? These cell phones are a modern-day marvel, aren’t they? It has a signal that you can’t touch, hear, smell – but yet you can communicate – on so many levels.
I can…Call my wife, call you, Do my banking, Pay my bills, Listen to music, Check the weather, Take a picture, Send a picture, Receive a picture, Get directions and to find a destination, View any place on the planet through Google Earth, Book a flight, or rent a car, Read the Wall Street Journal, Read the Bible! The odds are you are reading this on your phone!
The list goes on and on doesn’t it?
There are so many other things we can do with the “smart” phones, until the signal is lost. Right?
Once the signal is lost, you got nothing. No communications. No banking. No check on the weather. No directions. No view of the earth. And the list goes on doesn’t it.
And all this relying on a signal that bounces from tower to tower, and satellite dish to satellite dish! But can any of you explain to me how that happens?
If you can, never mind, I’m sure it’s all too complicated for my mind to understand.
And yet without understanding how it all works. We depend on it so much don’t we.
In fact according to statistics, the average user checks their phone 150 times per day. That’s about once every 6 minutes.
The vast majority of people check their phones immediately when waking up or during breakfast and again at night before they go to bed. And every time they check it, what are they depending on?
There being a signal.
But what happens when the signal is lost? Our world stops doesn’t it. We panic, because we can’t make a phone call or check our Facebook. And we worry that someone might be trying to get ahold of us and can’t reach us.
But the signal I want to talk about this morning is not the signal that comes to and from these things called cell phones or "smart" phones.
Romans 15:13 KJV Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power (connection with) of the Holy Ghost.
I want to talk about our Spiritual Connection.
I understand that when my spiritual connection is intact, that I have a connection on a level that you cannot touch, see, hear etc. But we depend on that signal being there, don’t we. For so many reasons.
My spiritual connection connects me to the people around me and my relationships with them. It connects me to my Savior and my relationship with Him. I get my worldview from that signal. My financial positions are connected to that signal. I get my direction from it.
But, when that spiritual connection is down, all that stops! And when it stops, we panic don’t we. Hello?
I mean our world begins to unravel! Fear, Worry, Anxiety, Doubt, Doubt of God’s existence. Then anger, Even anger against God
Sometimes I hear people say things like, I just don’t feel connected to God. Or, I feel like there’s something missing. Or they will say, I feel like my prayers aren’t being heard. That is because they have lost the signal!
You all know that we must pay a monthly cell phone bill to keep that signal, amen?
Can I ask a question? Why should we think it any different when it comes to our connection to God?
So, let me ask you a question. How many times per day do we touch God? Is is even close to the same amount of times you reach for the phone?
Opening the word of God and communing with him in prayer daily is how we keep the signal strong! Amen? Start today by seeking HIM first thing every morning and just after you check your phone as you lay your head down tonight, also check your signal with God! Amen?
Its up to you to keep the signal strong. For more on the lost signal watch the sermon, "Lost Signal - Lost Connection"here.
Comments
Amen. Prayer, reading the Bible and fellowship are all ways of keeping that communication open and connected.
Amen Tammy Van Horn they all keep the signal strong