Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Please answer your page!

It's way to early but I've had a lot of pain this morning and I also have a lot on my mind.  I decided I would get up and share a little of what is on my heart.  I believe it is what the Lord would have me share this morning.

I am in the medical profession and so pagers or "beepers" have been a big part of my everyday life.  Of course these days most of us have cell phones and that is how we are paged- but most doctors still  have pagers.

Pagers are both a blessing and a curse if you think about it. It is a blessing to the one who is trying to reach you, it is a curse to the one getting paged (sometimes).  You're right in the middle of doing something and it goes off!

When I page a doctor it is because there is a problem with one of his patients.  Sometimes a physician doesn't respond in a timely fashion and I must page him again.  There have been times in my career when it has taken 3-4 pages before I get a response.  If a doctor doesn't respond to a page it could end up harming the patient for I need a medicine or a treatment that only a doctor can order..

This got me thinking about the Holy Spirit.  He is the believer's internal pager.  When there is a sin problem in our lives, or perhaps the Lord is leading us to do a certain thing, that internal pager (the Holy Spirit) goes off, alerting us that there is a problem we need to give attention to.  Now we have that option of not answering that page....but pretty soon that internal pager known as the Holy Spirit will go off again....and again.

If we ignore that alert from the Holy Spirit it can be harmful to our spiritual health!

If you walk inside a church or a theater or some public place you may see the signs that say "Please put your cell phone or pagers on silent"  Why?  They don't want anything to bring a distraction to a church service or movie or such.  We never want to do that with the Holy Spirit.  In fact, we can try and silence Him, but He will go off right in the middle of anything we are doing......that is how much He loves us.  He is that concerned about us!  The Holy Spirit is more than willing to distract in order to alert us to what He is saying!

It is possible for us to quench the Holy Spirit.  We do this by a continual ignoring of His alerts.  This is a place in which the Christian does not want to find himself.  The Holy Spirit is paramount to our spiritual health and to our protection from the devil who roams this earth like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour.

My advice....answer your internal pager.  Maybe you're right in the middle of that pet sin and it goes off....answer it!  Perhaps you're busy with work and you think you'll answer it later on.....no! answer it now. Never put this pager on silence.  Welcome the Holy Spirit's alerts!  We have been given the Holy Spirit for this purpose!  He is our guide and our counselor in this sin sick world!

To God be the glory!

John 16: 12-15