“My soul yearns, even faints, for the courts of the Lord; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.” Psalm 84:2

“Honey, would you ring my phone? I can’t seem to find it!” She did… but it didn’t help! The phone MAY have rung, but the sound was not being heard by my ears. It wasn’t until later, when I found the phone outside on a table, that I understood WHY I couldn’t hear it. It rang where I wasn’t! Sender and receiver weren’t able to communicate! It’s been like that awhile!

The Christmas Season is always a favorite. With lots to do, there’s also lots to enjoy. Unfortunately this year, several viruses had settled in among the festivities, making my season NOT so sunny and bright! With congestion and fatigue, my get up and go… got up and went! Being so earthly and physically minded, I became no heavenly or spiritually good!

There is not a person in this world I have ever met who enjoyed being sick! Sickness is simply not normal! EVERYTHING in my being cried out that the sick state I’m in, is NOT the way life is SUPPOSED to BE! Then I got grumpy! After being grumpy for so long, I realized that, like sickness, grumpy didn’t provide any relief either! Then I did something stupid!

It was a rough day and night. I couldn’t breath, and I knew I had to get up early to preach. Suddenly it just came out… and I grumped at God! I won’t say what I said… but it definitely got HIS attention! Because… unlike the ring of my phone… HE HEARD ME! There seemed to come some heavenly lightning bolt that split the spiritual and the earthly. Then I heard HIM!

There’s an old saying, “he’s so heavenly minded that he’s no earthly good.” I’ve never had that problem! But I HAVE been ‘so earthly minded that I was no HEAVENLY good.’ Finding myself disconnected with God… I rang His phone REALLY loud! But thank God for Grace! It seems… He’d been trying to reach ME all along! Are YOU regularly connected with God? He’s trying to reach you!