Tuned To The Call

Covers wrapped around my body and pulled over my head, I am dead to the world. Trains go by with blaring horns, diesel motors of big trucks purr, and mom even yells from her room, but when it is 4:30 am I am dead asleep. The phone will ring my normal ring as someone tries to play a prank, only thinking they will wake me up, but I hear nothing. The warmth of the heater that sets on the ground next to my bed, and the pillows that surround me have made me all too cozy to be jolted out of my deep sleep by just any promiscuous caller. I am turned to another world now. The dreams still seem as reality at the time of this slumber, but one thing has caught my internal instinct. I jump, and in my lethargic state begin fumbling around with my hand above my head in search for my phone. My heart seems almost anxious while I finally grab the phone. “Hello” I say in a groggy whisper. “Hey babe” she says on the other line as I pull the covers back over my head. As our short conversation ends after a few minutes, I place the phone back above my head and return to my world of rest. Beloved, it still amazes me that the tone of normal callers ends unanswered while the tone of my lovely girlfriend finds an automatic pickup. Should not our relationship with the Lord be as this internal instinct I have with my Love? While we are busy in our everyday world of life, the Lord calls sweetly, sometimes just to say “I love you.” We must develop in our spirit the automatic response of answering to our Lord at any time. We must allow our Spiritual selves to be tuned to the call of God.