The devotion this morning was amazing! I still continue to allow distractions to tune God out on a daily basis but as I grow and stay in contact with him I hear him more often than not! This is a great analogy! Tuned In After I moved away from home, I would often go back and visit. It was a two and a half hour drive with a couple of mountains in between. As I was heading out, I would turn on the radio to pass the time while going down the road. Leaving town, I could jump around from station to station with no trouble at all. I could go from one to another then back to the original, over and over. I do not care much for listening to the commercials. Yet the farther I got out of town the harder it was to pick up a station I had been on earlier. It was clear when I left, but when I would come back sometimes even just moments later I would try and try, but I could not tune the signal in again. For some reason (that I am sure one of the Harris engineers could explain), if I stayed on the station I could listen to it much longer than if I switched and tried to come back. Eventually only a few of the strongest signals would remain. Then about an hour and forty-five minutes into the drive I would turn a corner and drop down a hill and all the signals were gone. See to it, brothers, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God. But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called Today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness. We have come to share in Christ if we hold firmly till the end the confidence we had at first. As has just been said: “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion.” (Hebrews 3:12-15, NIV84) Sin takes us off God’s channel. In a sense, our sin changes the channel and drives us down the road away from God. The sooner we turn back, the easier it is to start hearing Him again. Yet the longer we stay on another channel, not listening to Him, moving away from Him, it gets more and more difficult to tune Him back in. Why do pastors fall into sin? The same reason you and I do. They chose to tune God out in some “small area” and before they know it they have driven down the road. Sin’s deceitfulness can take us down roads we never imagined, and if we continue to be deceived, we will turn a corner and drop down a hill where the signal can no longer be received. We need to make sure we keep short accounts with God, repenting quickly when we slip up, and seeking His face for restoration. Your relationship with God is your responsibility, yet in Hebrews it says for us to encourage one another, so we will not be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness. We are called to do this together. Do you have people in your life to ask you the hard questions; the ones that you many times might be embarrassed to answer? Even as I wrote that last sentence, a thought went through my head, and I felt all the direction I was receiving from God writing this devotion slipping away. Praise God when those things come we can “Recognize, Reject and Replace” them and stay tuned in to God’s Channel. The more we stay tuned to His channel and not moving away from Him, the source of the signal, the easier it is to tune right back in when distractions come. Stay tuned in. Make It Stick: Why is it important for me to tune into the Holy Spirit and mute the noise of the world? Is your volume turned up to the max? Additional Reading: James 5:16; Ecclesiastes 4:9-12; Hebrews 10:25
Posted on: Fri, 06 Sep 2013 08:57:09 +0000
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