Cell Phone Trouble

I’m still in awe of modern electronics. Our cell phones have come a long way. Yes, cell phones are great…until you have a problem with them.

Cell phone trouble sent me to the cell phone technology help store. My phone wouldn’t hold a charge, any calls to me went straight to voice mail, I had no audio notifications that I had incoming calls or texts, and my calls out took so long to connect that sometimes my phone just dropped it, and just forget my outgoing text deliveries.

The kind young tech girl quickly found the problem. She said that every time my phone was used it had to do a search for a server. “But I have a server,” I said. “Yes,” she answered, “But your phone has to recognize it each time. It’s not the server; it’s the phone not having a consistent connection to the server.” And she fixed that.

Suddenly, my battery had longer life, all calls and texts were coming and going with speed, and all the pings and dings I programmed into my phone to let me know I had current information were pinging and dinging.

And I realized that, boy howdy, there’s a spiritual lesson for me here.

Stay consistently connected to God (the server.)

It’s not the server’s fault that I’m disconnected. It’s my fault.

R. A. Torry (A pretty famous evangelist, church and college starter of the late 1800’s and early 1900’s) wrote it this way in His book, The Power of Prayer.

The people of Isaiah’s time were saying, “God does not answer prayer any longer. He may have answered in Moses’s days. He may have answered in the days of Elijah, but He does not answer any longer. Either His ear is heavy that it cannot hear, or His hand is shortened that it cannot save.”

“No, no,” said Isaiah, “The Lord’s hand is not shortened that it cannot save: neither His ear heavy that it cannot hear. (Isa. 59:1-2) The trouble is not with God. The trouble is with you. Your sins have separated between you and God…If you are praying for something and not getting it, I beg you, do not think that God does not answer prayer…God may be dealing with you. He may be trying to bring you to your senses and to Himself. Get alone with God and honestly ask Him to show you if there is something wrong in your heart and life...When He shows you, set it straight at once. You will find an open heaven and a God who answers prayer.

Well said, R.A. Well said.

Stay connected to God by taking care of your sin.

And you will have constant  and consistent access to the Father.