Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Call Me, Please!
By Ramone - November 23, 2008
When I was in high school, my friends almost always liked to do something on Saturday nights. A movie, billiards, hanging out at someone's place, a video, or something. Someone would usually begin the phone-calling, checking to see what someone else was doing, and then the plan would go round to each person.
I have this strong memory of many times when I was waiting for the phone to ring. And sometimes or often I remember it not ringing. I waited, watched TV, and there came a point in the night when I realized I wasn't going anywhere. Maybe I eventually called and got ahold of someone, maybe not. Sometimes it was because the plan was cancelled, but more painfully sometimes it was because someone had forgotten to call me. (Might've had something to do with the fact that I didn't drive yet?)
Anyway, it was tough. So one day some time ago when God told me that He often feels the same way, I understood, and I cried together with Him (and still do even now as I write this).
So often we don't call God. We may not think He is going to answer. Or the sheer 'trouble of it' (going to Him and waiting on Him) might be too much for us. We'd rather just get on with our plan so much of the time. Often we talk about Him but don't talk to Him. And then often we talk to Him but don't wait for Him to answer.
But most often we spend time deducing His answer without actually calling Him. We take the manual (the Bible), extract 'principles' from it to operate by, and the result is that we often cut Him Himself out of the equation. We know God is like this, and this is His will in this or that situation, so we can claim the right things and go forward. No need to wait on Him. In a sense, there's then no need for Him Himself, for His Spirit.
So I think of God --and I feel His heart and weep His tears-- waiting eagerly by the phone for intimacy with us.
God, help me (and all of us) just give You a call more often! Help us learn to wait on You, to realize that You want deeper intimacy, and help us to face You to do that, Lord! It's really 'flesh'-killing to face You and wait on You, but hearing You is so rewarding, God! Break our hearts with Your broken heart, Your waiting-by-the-phone heart, Jesus!
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