The phone call wasn’t that important. I wasn’t talking to someone in a major crisis
or leading someone to Christ over the phone or even planning a very important
meeting. The fact is that I was just
checking my voicemail! But it was while
I was checking the voicemail that the line went dead… first there were the warning beeps. You know the sound…you get a strange beep
(sounds more like a boype than a beep) and then another and then they begin to
speed up… beep-----beep----beep--beep-beep-----------------nothing! Suddenly, my phone was dead! Dead, dead, dead! If you tried to call and I didn’t get it,
please forgive me but don’t blame it on the phone – blame it on the owner of
the phone who forgot to plug it in to charge the battery!
Sometimes our spiritual lives are like my phone. We feel like we are losing a connection to
God and might even hear or experience warning signs that we are wandering away
from God. In John 15, Jesus encourages
us strongly to “abide in Christ.”
Abiding in Christ is kind of like “plugging into” Christ all of the time. It involves spending some time in the Bible
daily, spending time in prayer as a way of life, worshipping with other
Christians weekly and submitting our will to the will of God.
The summer is coming on fast and the distractions will be
constant. Don’t let the distractions pull
you away from abiding in Christ. The
distractions come and go but Christ will be with you forever – abide with him
now, enjoy him now!
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