By Senior Pastor Keith Bates, New Life Christian Fellowship.
I have been thinking a bit lately about communications and the amazing advances in technology over the last couple of decades.
A few weeks ago I had to take my car to Tamworth for a service.
The work took a little longer than I hoped for and so we were travelling home when the time came for me to be on a Zoom call.
If you are not up to speed on this, Zoom is a technology that allows groups to hold video meetings over the internet using a webcam or even a mobile phone.
After handing the vehicle over to my wife I sat in the passenger seat and loaded the app and participated in this meeting while we travelled.
The meeting started when we were in Carroll and continued most of the way home.
Apart from the odd freeze of up to a minute when the phone signal wasn’t strong enough, we were connected for the entire time.
If you had told me even 10 years ago that this would become commonplace, I would have been sceptical.
Amazing as all of this is, it is not perfect.
A tower could have failed, the phone overheated or the battery flat.
We can’t always make the calls we want to make.
However, we can always communicate with God and we don’t need a phone or internet to do it.
All you need to do is to talk to Him, like you would a friend.
No fancy religious words, just simple talk from your heart.
Tell Him how you feel, the things you struggle with, what you worry about.
It’s one thing that we can make video calls to multiple people around the world from our car, it’s a whole other level to consider that the Creator of the universe is waiting to hear from you.
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By Senior Pastor Keith Bates, New Life Christian Fellowship.
I have been thinking a bit lately about communications and the amazing advances in technology over the last couple of decades.
A few weeks ago I had to take my car to Tamworth for a service.
The work took a little longer than I hoped for and so we were travelling home when the time came for me to be on a Zoom call.
If you are not up to speed on this, Zoom is a technology that allows groups to hold video meetings over the internet using a webcam or even a mobile phone.
After handing the vehicle over to my wife I sat in the passenger seat and loaded the app and participated in this meeting while we travelled.
The meeting started when we were in Carroll and continued most of the way home.
Apart from the odd freeze of up to a minute when the phone signal wasn’t strong enough, we were connected for the entire time.
If you had told me even 10 years ago that this would become commonplace, I would have been sceptical.
Amazing as all of this is, it is not perfect.
A tower could have failed, the phone overheated or the battery flat.
We can’t always make the calls we want to make.
However, we can always communicate with God and we don’t need a phone or internet to do it.
All you need to do is to talk to Him, like you would a friend.
No fancy religious words, just simple talk from your heart.
Tell Him how you feel, the things you struggle with, what you worry about.
It’s one thing that we can make video calls to multiple people around the world from our car, it’s a whole other level to consider that the Creator of the universe is waiting to hear from you.