Qik Stream
So here I am sitting in a car stuck in traffic and I was wondering what I could do that would be somewhat productive.
I have read the live feed of my Facebook friends and caught up on my twitter feed. And then I was just sitting here and realized something that I think we have all slowly been realizing. We live in a world of mobile communication.
It was one of those DUH moments. I can be in the mountains of Switzerland, in a car in Germany, even in a plane over the ocean, since January I could even be in outer space or obviously in my house or even at work and be in constant communication with the rest of the world from the palm of my hands. We are connected. We are or at least can be in constant communication. We are virtually addicted to it!
But you know what? Mobile communication is nothing new. It has been around for millennia. And I am not referring to smoke signals, bird calls or other vocal signals. Mobile communication and the need and desire for constant connection have been with us since the beginning of time.
God gave us the need for communication. He gave us the ability to communicate. And he gave us the mobility of it all as well. He Himself walked in communication with Adam and Eve in the garden.
What have we done with this gift and ability? We have and are filling it ever more with others. Spiritual sounding blogs and tweets that we read more than the nice and compact, mobile and transportable ever tweeting Word of God.
What was the first thing you read today? The newspaper? The live feed on Facebook? The tweets of the people you follow?
Oh wait! You follow Jesus! At least some of you do. Well then you should think about your mobile communication. At least re-prioritize the time spent and the order of reading and responding. Some of it is useful, helpful and beneficial. But is it pushing the origin of all communication out of the center of your life? Where is God on your list? And is it a two way or a one way communication? Has He heard from you? Really heard?
Well I gotta go. There are others waiting to talk to me. I am almost home from my day trip. And you know what? The are some more things I need to talk to the Father about.
So after I posted this in the car this afternoon, I discovered this while preparing my message for tomorrow. In a sense this gets the point across while talking about a different topic and much more humerous than my post.:
