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Alexander
Graham Bell Using Telephone
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If God needed to gain your attention today, where would you place yourself on a scale of 1 (deaf) to 5 (all ears)...(Serendipity Bible 10th Anniversary Edition, page 1018).
“Whoever
can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and
whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with
much” (Luke 16:10 TNIV).
I
would ask for a moment that we try to put ourselves in God's place
years ago when his people were in slavery in Egypt. He needed a
servant who could be trusted to obey His directives not only in
leading the deliverance of his people, but to guide them though
formative years in the desert in which God's instructions and laws
needed to be disseminated and established. In short, the immediate
task for God was to find a faithful servant who could (would) hear
his voice and obey it.
Let
us put this challenge in today's terms. Say we had a critical
mission that had to rely upon a piece of communication equipment.
Surely we would not wait until the critical event to test the
reliance of our equipment, but would do so before hand with
communication of apparently trivial information in trivial and
non-critical times. In inventing the first practical telephone
Alexander Graham Bell did not wait for an emergency to test his
equipment but said simply “Watson, come here! I want to see you!”
I
would like to speculate that this is the place of intuition in our
lives. It is God testing the reliability of his servant in which the
faithful completion of apparently trivial matters indicates whether
his instrument is flawed by denial and dishonesty. So the next time
you are ordering a sandwich at Subway, if you feel led (with a
strange conviction out of all proportion to the occasion) to add a
little onion, my advice is that you faithfully follow your intuition.
Whether you are trusted with much may well hang in the balance.
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