Can You Hear Me Now??

Can you hear me now? Ok. Good. How about now? Good. Can you hear me now? This catchy phrase was coined by the Verizon Wireless phone company. This is there slogan. Being able to communicate with people is important. Text messages and phone calls are used to send messages. However, sometime the signal is bad and the messages don't go through and the calls get dropped. This can also be true of the Christian life.

How many times when we pray to God and ask 'Can you hear me?' Our prayers feel like they're not even getting past the ceiling. We ask God 'Why aren't you answering?' 'Can you not hear me?'

This can be a very frustrating experience. Humanly, we can relate this to two friends sitting in a room together. Friend A is telling friend B about how horrible her day was and everything that went wrong. When she is finished talking, friend B looks up and says 'Oh I'm sorry. Did you say something?' The good news is: God isn't like that!

God does hear us. He just wants us to be quiet. Isaiah 65:24 says this "It shall come to pass that before they call, I will answer; and while they are still speaking, I will hear." God knows what we are going to say before we say it. And he knows how long we will talk to him about it too. God wants us to take a moment to stop asking the questions of 'Can you hear me? and Why aren't you answering?' to sit and listen in quiet. Perhaps the reason we can't hear him is because we ourselves are not quiet enough to hear him. God is listening. Are you?