Call to Him

When we call out to God, he will answer us with great and incomprehensible things that we otherwise would not ever know. (Jeremiah 33:3) 

How exciting is that amidst all the craziness that the world has to offer? 

Take a look around and see how things have changed in the world as you have known it even from the time of your birth. From just the very ways of communication.

My dad had just begun to become acquainted to using the internet a couple years before his death in 2005. And it has changed so much since then. My mom never knew anything about it when she passed in 1995. She loved to write and was using an electric typewriter for most of her written correspondence prior to that time. On back it goes to the earliest of all communication, the changes that have come about in the lives of the human race.  

When I was very young, we had what was known as a party line on our phone line so that several people share the same line. If someone was already talking on the phone in one household, and someone from a different household wanted to make a call, they had to wait until the person had hung up. Which meant you had to keep checking in to see if they were off yet. Talking about privacy. There was none in those days so far as that kind of communication went. There were ways you could sort of find out other people were calling without them knowing, as we found out an elderly lady on our road had been doing back then.  As time progressed, party lines in cities were gone and each household had its own line, its own number. But in the country, the party lines were still around when I was married in the early 1970s because phone lines were not yet set up so that each home could have its own line. 

We ourselves had to share a line for two or three years after we were married and lived in the country at that time. And it was not pleasant because we had to wait sometimes when we wanted to make a call, and we then deal with our neighbor too. 

Through the years, communication and ways of using it have surely progressed, of course. And as we know, it didn't start with the invention of the telephone. It didn't even start when cave men drew pictures on the walls of their caves, or when God's people walked the earth.

It started with God when he had created Adam and told him to work the garden in Genesis 2:15. This is the first biblical account we have, in his communication with human beings. From then to today, his communication has increased through the use of the tools that man has created (with God's help) to advance God's Word to us. From stone tablets (the Ten Commandments) , to being able to listen to it on CDs and videos, and even the Written Word can be had on Smart Phones. And who knows what might be next for as long as God tarries before coming back to take the church home. He has surely increased the knowlege of man to invent such things we enjoy today.

The thing is, God's Word, unlike all else man made on this earth, will never pass away. And while the progress of man has given man all the evil things it has on movies and the internet, it has also given us a wider range with which anyone that wants to can also have the good things of God.

Because why? Because God's Word will never pass away. Mathew 24:35.

And while we have his word, we also have communication with him through our prayers as well. God is always waiting for us. He is always listening to us. He wants to have communication with us because if he didn't, there would have been no reason for him to create us. He is our Father, and unlike many fathers and so called fathers that are human, he doesn't leave those that belong to him. It isn't in his nature because we are too important to him.

 We can bank on that, when there is little or nothing else we can bank on.

July 3, 2019 You will go out with joy and led forth in peace, the mountains and hills will burst forth in song before you and the trees will clap their hands. Isaiah 55:12

Hi Friends. Thanks for coming by today.I will try to be here again tomorrow. Take care over the July 4th holidays. In the mean time, God bless!