Take out a cell phone. Turn it on. Find the little symbol that shows how strong the phone signal is.
We all know where it is, because when we drop a call, we look there first. Ah, we cry, we don’t have a signal!
It’s such an issue that it’s become an advertising hotbed. We recognize the phrase, “Can you hear me now?” Where did that come from? A cell phone company’s advertising campaign.
It boils down to this: the closer we are to the source of power, the better our signal; and the better our signal, the less likely we are to drop our call.
Satellite radio is becoming a hot item in new automobiles. We can listen to our choice of music advertisement free, all for a few dollars a month. However, unlike CDs or built-in hard drives, that music plays only when we have a signal. Remember those places where we lose our XM signal every time? Without our power source, we can’t hear the music at all.
Our signal from God is the same. It’s when we stand next to his power source that our spiritual radio never fails; that our spiritual phone never drops a call; and that we are always in touch with him.
2 Samuel 24:16 tells us:
“And when the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, the Lord relented from the calamity and said to the angel who was working destruction among the people, ‘It is enough; now stay your hand.’ And the angel of the Lord was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.”
David, the great king from the Old Testament, was a wise investor. He was the Warren Buffet of his day, a savvy entrepreneur that knew when a good deal was going to get even better. He snapped up the land right next to God’s power supply.
Look in 2 Samuel 24:24:
“But the king said to Araunah, ‘No, but I will buy it from you for a price. I will not offer burnt offerings to the Lord my God that cost me nothing.’ So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.”
Snapping up the power. Standing next to the source. Building the biggest cell tower in the world. It all means the same thing: We need to keep our connection with God strong.
James 1:17 reminds us:
“Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.”
We receive his good gifts when we are near the source. We find the source by searching the Scriptures.
2 Timothy 3:16 keeps our beacon focused on him:
“All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness.”
Matthew 6:24 explains why keeping tuned to God is so important:
“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.”
Let’s check our signal indicator. What do we love? The closer we are to God, the easier it is to hear what he says to us in Luke 2:14:
“Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among those with whom he is pleased!”
Is he pleased with us? If so, he wraps us in his arms of love.
When we are next to Jesus, we’ll never miss a single word he has to say.
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