Hello God? Its me again!

I’ve had this in draft since March 3. Guess its time to develop it and get it out of the hopper! Good friends of ours came to visit the other day and one of them was wearing a shirt with the picture of someone on the phone and the title of this post (Hello God? Its me again) as the caption in the conversation bubble. I often feel exactly like that. Even though we are supposed to call on God regularly, and he does not discourage it, sometimes we feel like we’re bothering him with my piddly little problems. In the grand scheme of things, that is exactly what they are too. Imagine all of the problems of the all of the Christians in the world. Many much more important than mine…at least in my eyes. But, Praise the Lord that God does not see it that way.

That doesn’t make it any easier though to get past the problem of feeling like we’re burdening God. Then you look a the Bible and you find out that God wants us to give our burdens to Him! We, as people, with our iittle finite minds, choose to carry the burdens ourselves. If we bother to check our “knee mail” regularly we’ll find a message from God every day that says: “Hello so-in-so (that would be us), Thanks for offering your assistance, but I don’t need your help today.” But it seems that when that message does try to come through to us we put it in some type of spam queue and never even pay any attention to it. Its a wonder that God doesn’t get frustrated with us like we do with each other. He is so patient—we are not. He is so willing–we like to think we are, but we are not. That list can go on and on, but I really don’t want to turn this post into a book. I think that you get the idea.

If you consider nothing else and if this post does not provoke any other thought, dwell on this: God has been waiting patiently for our call and has been expecting it for a long time. Don’t feel bad about having to call on him to help you, because, if you know him as your savior, you have the promise that he will. He wants to! We simply have to let him. When you pray to God, no matter how many connections are already in progress, you will never get a busy signal! So when you feel bad about having to say “Hello, God? It’s me again!” listen very carefully so that you can hear when he says, “Good, I’ve been expecting your call!”