“and that from childhood you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.” 2 Timothy 3:15
BONGGGGGG! My phone went off. Then BONGGGGGG again! Over the next several minutes the BONGGGGGGing was driving me crazy! I was in the middle of ‘GROUP Text Hades!’ Female members of my clan were planning a get together and I saw that 1 message referred to my wife and I… questioning if we were coming. I simply answered ‘yes.’ But it didn’t end there!
It was later in the afternoon when I noticed a missed call from my son’s phone. I can’t answer my phone when I am on the motorcycle. Calling him back I got his answering service… and left a message. 4 hours later, he won ‘telephone tag’ when I answered. He asked me… “hey dad, are you coming to the family thing?” My reply was… “didn’t your wife get my message? I had said ‘yes’” “No, she never got that message!” he replied. So I confirmed again. “Yes.”
This same scenario happened to me several times this week. And NOT just with texts. Emails are not getting to people ‘every time’ I send them either. The funny thing is, when folks DON’T get a message, they sometimes mix that absence with care or love! “Don’t you love us anymore?” was one comment! MY immediate reaction is to pull up my phone to see if they had inadvertently got deleted… just to CONFIRM that “I STILL CARED!” haaaaaa It’s crazy right?
In these days of technology, ‘getting the word out’ should be simple. But because of the tech noise, the culture, and the overlap, what USED to be… is no longer. 100% reliable communication is still under development between us humans. But it is NOT for God!
The Bible verse today clearly states that God has told us EVERYTHING we need to know about His plan of salvation and our growth in faith. Now if that is true, WHY do so many people seem to have NOT ‘gotten the message?’ God makes it clear that the failure is NOT the fault of the sender! But in the receiver. The saying is true, “God has said it… THAT should settle it!” But!
When we talk about FAITH, too many folks place that subject into a mystical, ghost-like state… leaving the subject fuzzy and unclear. It’s almost like believing it is there, but understanding it LATER, when we ‘see it,’ is acceptable. But to God… it is NOT! To Him, one either HAS FAITH and is WALKING IN IT… or they don’t and are not! His written Word, His Son and the Holy Spirit are the realities He has sent us to deliver His most important message to mankind since ‘fruit!’
“Did YOU get it?”
