We screen our calls. Modern technology allows us to see the name on the other end of the line, and we can choose to accept or discard the call.
If they refuse to reveal who they are, we can block them from reaching us again. It’s as simple as tap, tap, tap on our screen, and that number never rings through again.
We feel we’re the unknown caller sometimes. God doesn’t know us. Other times, we refuse to reveal who we really are, yet we want him to answer anyway.
We’re shut out. God has blocked our calls. We ring and ring, and it’s a dead end. Each time we’re shunted to the side, and we never get to speak with God.
We become convinced he doesn’t know us and will never acknowledge our presence.
The Word tells us otherwise. Read in Jeremiah 1:5:
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.”
God has the entire phone book in his directory. Every number is his.
The prophet Isaiah recognized God’s attention. Read in Isaiah 49:1:
“Listen to me, O coastlands, and give attention, you peoples from afar. The Lord called me from the womb, from the body of my mother he named my name.”
From the time we are born, God knows us specifically and intimately. He’s never confused as to our identity.
God never screens his calls. When we turn to him, he picks up and answers. He sees us on his screen, and he knows just who we are. We are his creation. We are the very formation of his hand, and we live by the breath he breathed into us. Check it out in Genesis 2:7:
“Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.”
That’s us, God’s creation, always known by him. The unknown caller? God doesn’t know what that is. He always knows us, for we are his children.
We might choose to ignore God, but he never chooses to ignore us.
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