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So, considering how we’ve been thinking about staying connected to God - a little illustration to hopefully encourage you.

In a way, God is like mobile phone signal. “huh?” Ok, bear with me on this

The thing about mobile phone signal is, depending on where you are your level of signal goes up or down, and the quality and ease of phone conversations does too. And depending on where you are, you can find it harder or easier to talk to God.

Think about being somewhere where you have full phone signal. There’s no interferance on the line and hearing the person on the other end can be as clear as if they were literally stood next to you. The line connects really quickly, so there’s no waiting and you know that they can hear you as well as you can hear them. You are unhindered in your conversation. If you are at somewhere like Soul Survivor, etc, it can be like you have full phone signal - speaking to God can seem so easy, like he’s right there next to you, you know He hears everything you say and it’s like you can hear Him speaking back.

What about somewhere where phone signal is moderate? You can have a conversation with someone but the line isnt quite as clear, the line may have moments where you cant hear the other person properly or they can’t hear you fully, but mainly you can have a good phone conversation. This can perhaps be like our every day life at church or youth meetings - we can have full on conversations with God, even if it’s not as intense as at those festivals.

Then there’s low phone signal where conversations can feel really tough. Maybe there are times at school or work or wherever when it’s hard to even bother praying - it works, but it’s harder to do.

But even if you have no signal, you should be able to phone through to emergency services. And how true is that with God? Even in the most dire of circumstances, if you feel you are in the hardest place to talk to God, that connection is still present. You can get in touch with Him no matter where or when - it doesnt matter if it doesnt sound like the clearest connection, or it isnt in the easiest place, you can always get in touch with God. Always. With mobile phones there are places that you do fully lose signal (tunnels, etc) but thats the difference with God. There’s nowhere you lose touch with Him.

So I guess the final thing to say is, how much are you using your mobile phone to God? If we know that signal is always available to us, although how clear it is can vary, then how much are we speaking to Him? Signal is one thing but for a phone conversation to happen, we have to actually have the connection made and the phone to our ear - we have to be purposefully talking.

Cause here’s one last thought - He gives you unlimited minutes

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