Keep your radio on

Keep your radio on

Bible:Prove1 Samuel 3:1-107

The Lord came and stood there, calling as at the other times, “Samuel! Samuel!”
Then Samuel said, “Speak, for your servant is listening” (V.10).

Reading

If the radio had been on, they would have known the Titanic was sinking. Cyril Evans, the radio operator of another ship, had tried to get a message to Jack Phillips, the radio operator on the Titanic—letting him know they had just navigated through an ice field. But Phillips was busy relaying passengers’ messages and rudely told Evans to be quiet. So Evans turned off his radio and went to be bed. Ten minutes later, the Titanic hit an iceberg. Their distress
signals went unanswered because no one was listening. In 1 Samuel we read that the priests of Israel were dishonest, living for whatever they could get for themselves and ignoring God completely. “The word of the Lord was rare; there were not many visions” (1 SAMUEL 3:1). But God wouldn’t give up on His people. He began to speak to a young boy called Samuel
who was being raised in the priest’s household. Samuel, whose name means “God hears”, would now need to learn how to hear God. “Speak, for your servant is listening” (V.10). If we want to hear, we also need to be people who are “listening”. May we also choose to listen to and obey what God has said in the Bible. Let’s give our lives to Him and take the time to read, enjoy and think about His words. We need to be people who have our ‘radios’
turned on.

GOD IS ALWAYS SPEAKING . . . ARE WE LISTENING?

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