It was cold today. Icy wind whipped around the corner of the library on our campus. As my wife and I rounded that frigid corner we bumped into a student trying to shelter herself as she talked on her cell phone. It was the only place she could get service. She had no bars inside where it was warm.
As we entered the warmth of the library I thought of one of my favorite Psalms. It’s number 139 and goes like this. “If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there. If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.” We don’t have to find the right place to be in connection with our heavenly Father. We have total bars everywhere. He can “hear us now.” And that “now” is “always.” There isn’t any place we can be that He will not hear us.
Psalm 139 goes on to tell us He watched us form in the womb. Even there He was listening to our first fetal heart beats. Even there He watched our brains form and smiled when we first started to hear the voices of our mom and dad while still inside that snug warm place. The Psalm continues with “How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! How great is the sum of them! If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.”
The next time you have to hunt for cell service remember your heavenly Father can hear you everywhere.
Written by Roger Bothwell on January 6, 2010
Spring of Life Ministry, PO Box 124, St. Helena, CA 94574
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