Can You Hear Me Now?

The other day while I was shopping at my local warehouse store, I saw a woman on her cell phone. She kept saying, “Hello…Hello…Hello?” Obviously she had a bad connection.

Sometimes people feel they have a bad connection with God. They can’t understand why He doesn’t answer their prayers. Often they feel the problem is on God’s end. They don’t want to acknowledge that their own behavior (a.k.a. sin) may be hindering their communication with Him.

God wants to make contact with us. He wants a connection that will develop into a meaningful relationship. But since God is a Holy and Just God, He cannot tolerate sin. Habakkuk 1:13 says, “You are of purer eyes than to behold evil, and cannot look on wickedness.”

The Bible tells us we all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. The size of the sin doesn’t matter; it still creates static on our end so we don’t hear His answers. Jesus alone bridges the gap that separates us from God. Jesus is that lifeline, that direct and unbreakable link to the Lord Most High.

Do you want God to hear you? Or rather, do you want to be heard by God? Ask Jesus to clear out the lines of communication so He can say, “You can hear Me now!”