Signals and waves are swarming all around us, in us, and through us. We all know the recent move TV has made from analog to digital. We’ll, I have a story to share about my little black TV converter box.
I was sitting at home a few weeks back watching some TV and only about 4 channels came in. This had been going on for some time with every couple of weeks losing another channel. If I didn’t originally have more channels in the first place, I would never have been aware that I lost anything. But knowing that I did, I decided to go ahead and rescan for channels.
And do you know what happened? Wow, I had all the channels back which I had initially lost, plus more channels appeared which I never knew were out there. I was surprised at how slick the process of rescanning channels worked. Also to my amazement, I had no idea there were new channels floating around untapped.
Let’s take this lesson and apply it to our spiritual lives. I know when I’m in tune with God, and when I’m out of tune with God. Sometimes, I’m lazy, slothfulness, stubborn, and too sinful to rescan my channels, clear the air, confess things, and get the lines of communication functioning properly again. Do you need to rescan your channels today with God like I need to?
The interesting thing about this analogy is also the additional channels that I received on my TV that I didn’t even realize were ever even a possibility. So it is I believe in our relationship with God. We are prone to plateau in our maturity with God and quit growing. We can become this spiritually stagnant immovable blob, and fail to realize there is so much more. We can stay like this for weeks, months, or even years. It’s real scary. We can be completely unaware that this is going on, and believe this to be natural. We can even look at others, see the same thing going on in them, and join them in complacent lives before God.
God has greater depths, more channels, and intensely gripping words He’s wanting us to catch. Often though our antennas are unaware of these signals and waves. We can walk through large portions of our lives and miss God completely. This is very tragic. Missing any part of God’s message, large or small, I believe one day we will see just how tragic or mistakes and sin truly are. We must be mindful that God desires us to keep rescanning and checking the antenna and receptivity of our own souls so we’re not missing out on pieces of Jesus’ message and our calling. Keep checking the antenna and receptivity of your soul to Jesus.
