Jeremiah 33:3
Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.
For three weeks now, I have been cellphone-less. I’ve lost it somewhere and cannot find it. Though the last time I remember having it I had taken it out of my car at home and shut it off and now, I really don’t know where it is. Honestly, I feel a little exposed without it. Having a cellphone where I live is more of a security issue than a social one. When I leave home, there are many miles between me and town with nothing between. I first started carrying a cellphone when I was pregnant with our daughter. My husband and brother-in-law had their own company and felt it would be a good idea for me to carry a phone anytime I went to town. I was very thankful for that. I had gone from living in the busy metropolitan area of Cincinnati to living where “the deer and the antelope roam”, literally.
It made me feel more secure knowing I could call my hubby or someone in the family if I had car trouble or needed something else while I was in town. I admit that sometimes it’s nice to be able to just “reach out and touch someone” even while I’m traveling.
As I’ve pondered on my loss of my cellphone, Jeremiah 33:3 kept coming to mind. God says, call unto Me…. The word call here means to cry out, call aloud. It is a message usually directed to a specific person to produce a specific response. So God says, call unto Me… and I will answer you.
Psalm 91:14-15 says, Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name. He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him. God wants us to call on Him. Calling on the Lord denotes a close relationship with Him. It indicates that we are not afraid nor too proud to ask Him for help when we are in trouble.
There have been times when I had my cellphone that I’d wished I’d left it at home because it seemed like everybody needed something from me. Not having had my phone has cut my husband and daughter off from me when I’m traveling between home and town. My daughter has not been able to call me when she needed to talk to me. She cannot make requests of me because I’m unavailable. Our connection has been severed when we’re not together.
Sometimes, we sever our relationship with the Lord. Our “cellphone of prayer” is lost or we’ve just intentionally left it somewhere so we can’t talk to the Lord. The thing is when we do that, we can’t hear His voice either. When we read the Word of God, He cannot speak to us because we've left our "cellphone of prayer" somewhere else. Now, I’m fairly certain He will survive if I never talked to Him again, but I’m equally certain that I NEED to His voice. I NEED to be connected to Him. He IS my security in a world that’s becoming less secure every day!
When we lose or leave our “cellphone of prayer” somewhere, not only can we not hear Him, but we cannot make our requests to the Lord. Though He knows what our needs are, He desires to hear from us. For the Lord, talking to us is not a need… it’s a desire for fellowship. It is a desire to have delight in responding to us. For us, it is most definitely a NEED to talk to the Lord.
Some of us just don’t realize how much we need Him. We try to do things on our own without His help. After all, we wouldn’t want to be accused of using Him as a crutch. We don’t want to “bother” the Lord.
Psalm 91:14 says, “because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him.” When we stay connected to the Lord through prayer and reading His Word, we’ve set our love upon HIM. When you love someone, you desire to spend time with them getting to know them, talking to them, having conversations with them. He promises that if we love Him and call upon Him for anything… He will answer.
Hmmm. What about you? Is the Lord saying to you, “Can you hear Me now?” Do you think you’ve found yourself in a valley where the connection has been lost and you cannot hear His voice? God hears even in the valleys. He hears on the mountaintop. Do you love Him? Are things difficult for you now? Perhaps you’ve just found yourself so busy, you’ve not had time (or made time) to make that connection… Call upon Him now… He will answer you!
Molly Winter
Col. 1:9-10
My Comments: I have found in the past few months how easy it is to be cut off in my connection with the Lord. I can so easily move away or travel through a valley of trials that take my eyes and reception off of Christ and on my own self or others. I am seeing such blessing from renewing the connection and keeping the lines of communication open with the Lord through prayer and Bible study. What a blessing to know He wants us to lean and rely on Him!!!
Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.
For three weeks now, I have been cellphone-less. I’ve lost it somewhere and cannot find it. Though the last time I remember having it I had taken it out of my car at home and shut it off and now, I really don’t know where it is. Honestly, I feel a little exposed without it. Having a cellphone where I live is more of a security issue than a social one. When I leave home, there are many miles between me and town with nothing between. I first started carrying a cellphone when I was pregnant with our daughter. My husband and brother-in-law had their own company and felt it would be a good idea for me to carry a phone anytime I went to town. I was very thankful for that. I had gone from living in the busy metropolitan area of Cincinnati to living where “the deer and the antelope roam”, literally.
It made me feel more secure knowing I could call my hubby or someone in the family if I had car trouble or needed something else while I was in town. I admit that sometimes it’s nice to be able to just “reach out and touch someone” even while I’m traveling.
As I’ve pondered on my loss of my cellphone, Jeremiah 33:3 kept coming to mind. God says, call unto Me…. The word call here means to cry out, call aloud. It is a message usually directed to a specific person to produce a specific response. So God says, call unto Me… and I will answer you.
Psalm 91:14-15 says, Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name. He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him. God wants us to call on Him. Calling on the Lord denotes a close relationship with Him. It indicates that we are not afraid nor too proud to ask Him for help when we are in trouble.
There have been times when I had my cellphone that I’d wished I’d left it at home because it seemed like everybody needed something from me. Not having had my phone has cut my husband and daughter off from me when I’m traveling between home and town. My daughter has not been able to call me when she needed to talk to me. She cannot make requests of me because I’m unavailable. Our connection has been severed when we’re not together.
Sometimes, we sever our relationship with the Lord. Our “cellphone of prayer” is lost or we’ve just intentionally left it somewhere so we can’t talk to the Lord. The thing is when we do that, we can’t hear His voice either. When we read the Word of God, He cannot speak to us because we've left our "cellphone of prayer" somewhere else. Now, I’m fairly certain He will survive if I never talked to Him again, but I’m equally certain that I NEED to His voice. I NEED to be connected to Him. He IS my security in a world that’s becoming less secure every day!
When we lose or leave our “cellphone of prayer” somewhere, not only can we not hear Him, but we cannot make our requests to the Lord. Though He knows what our needs are, He desires to hear from us. For the Lord, talking to us is not a need… it’s a desire for fellowship. It is a desire to have delight in responding to us. For us, it is most definitely a NEED to talk to the Lord.
Some of us just don’t realize how much we need Him. We try to do things on our own without His help. After all, we wouldn’t want to be accused of using Him as a crutch. We don’t want to “bother” the Lord.
Psalm 91:14 says, “because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him.” When we stay connected to the Lord through prayer and reading His Word, we’ve set our love upon HIM. When you love someone, you desire to spend time with them getting to know them, talking to them, having conversations with them. He promises that if we love Him and call upon Him for anything… He will answer.
Hmmm. What about you? Is the Lord saying to you, “Can you hear Me now?” Do you think you’ve found yourself in a valley where the connection has been lost and you cannot hear His voice? God hears even in the valleys. He hears on the mountaintop. Do you love Him? Are things difficult for you now? Perhaps you’ve just found yourself so busy, you’ve not had time (or made time) to make that connection… Call upon Him now… He will answer you!
Molly Winter
Col. 1:9-10
My Comments: I have found in the past few months how easy it is to be cut off in my connection with the Lord. I can so easily move away or travel through a valley of trials that take my eyes and reception off of Christ and on my own self or others. I am seeing such blessing from renewing the connection and keeping the lines of communication open with the Lord through prayer and Bible study. What a blessing to know He wants us to lean and rely on Him!!!
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