New Phones
Faith in a prayer-hearing God will make a prayer-loving Christian. Andrew Murray
We have new phones at work. You’re probably saying “so what”? Well, the phones were changed out on
Friday. When we came in on Monday we had
this nice new phone on our desks that has 22 buttons on it; all for different
functions. Did I mention that this phone
is so complicated that we had to have a training class to figure out how it
works? With 22 buttons and multiple user
screens, I’m surprised it can’t drive me home.
When I tried to login the first time it
asked for a new password. I entered a new
password and a lady came on and told me unacceptable password. So when all else fails, go to the manual. Did I aIso mention that the manual is 322
pages long? Anyway, back to my
password. I tried my old password, made
up a new password, tried someone else’s password and I actually got stuck in a
continuous loop. When I was able to get
in it kept taking me back to the same message, “invalid password, please try
again”. I finally hung up on her.
The interesting thing was everyone who
came in the office stopped by to ask me how to log into their phones. Like I had time to read 322 pages of
instructions and was an expert or something.
There is even a section called the Grand Tour in the manual. I don’t need a Grand Tour; I need a semester
of college to get through the manual. Then there was the whole microphone
thing. When I went to record my name and
voice message I would hear the beep and then I would speak into the phone but
when I pressed replay to listen to my message there was nothing but silence. I finally figured out by trial and error that
I had to hit the microphone button in order to record my message.
Then there was the Park Orbit
button. That sounds kind of like an
oxymoron to me. How can I park and orbit
at the same time? I stay away from that
button. Another interesting button is
the Page All. This is the one that puts
you on the loud speaker so that everyone in the office can hear you. Another great feature to this multi-talented
phone is that now people can call me and since I requested some special feature
prior to setup, (what was I thinking), it allows my voice mails to be sent to
me by email and it is translated into a wave file that will allow me to listen
to my messages from my desktop. (I read
that in the manual so it must work, although I haven’t received a message yet
so maybe my messages are in orbit or a black hole).
When I was thinking about my phone it
reminded me that God is always available.
The amazing thing is; I can speak to God by thinking of Him, singing
praise to Him and meditating on Him and His Word. There are no complicated processes to reach
Him, no multiple buttons that require a college degree to understand and the
Manual is pretty straightforward. Follow
Me. Love Me. Believe in Me. Accept Me. How amazing is it that we can have eternal
life and it is easy if we believe. You don’t need a special wave file to be
able to communicate with our Heavenly Father.
Trust in Him, believe in Him and talk to Him. He is there waiting to hear from you.
Prayer for the Day: Heavenly Father, as I
tried to figure out how to operate my telephone, it brought thoughts of You to
mind. I praise You for allowing me to communicate with You directly. Some of my best conversations are those I
have with You. You are my Savior and
Redeemer. Thank you for loving me enough
to save me and I praise You for answering my prayers.
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