Remember when phones were actually used as a phone? Communicating is essential for mankind and before telecommunications, we relied upon primitive ways to keep in touch, some of which were cave paintings, smoke signals, drums, and homing pigeons.
Today we have mobile devices that allow us to be…well…mobile. Crucial to our lifestyle, one might even say life dependent. Even though the original intent of these gadgets was to be a phone, they are used more like computers today. Smartphones we call them, used to manage our lives, conduct business, entertain us, and screen our calls so we can send them to voicemail until later.
Our lives have become so busy, we do not have time for an actual conversation, so we revert to texting; posting a comment; tweeting; sending a video clip; and the list goes on. We often ignore a phone call; or we strangely presume something is wrong because the person is calling us on the phone. Give it time and our culture might slowly revert to digital cave paintings. Are we losing our desire to hold a personal conversation that bonds a relationship?
The bible tells us we have a calling on our lives, an invitation to meet with our Creator to fulfill a unique purpose. A call to rouse us from sleep, bringing us to action, challenging us to be habitually active in establishing that vocation.
The Lord has been calling the generations from the beginning. The phone is ringing.
Will you answer the call?
Refer to Romans 8:28; 2 Peter 1:10; 1 Peter 5:10; Isaiah 41:4
