Is that your phone ringing?

Have you ever been in a restaurant or a theater and heard someone's phone ringing?

You look over both shoulders trying to guess where the sound is coming from.

Maybe you even remark to your friend about how annoying it is that they wont answer their phone!!

Evidently the person who is calling is very persistent because they keep calling back.

The phone rings and rings and you get more and more uncomfortable until finally your friend looks at you and says:

Is that your phone ringing?

So, let me ask you, is your phone ringing today?

Could it be that God is calling you?

How many times do we walk past the needy and think, "I wish someone would help them."

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How often do we see someone who is hurting but we are too timid to ask them if they need prayer?

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How many parties do we attend where we notice there is an outcast sitting alone but we don't reach out to include them?

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"I hear the phone ringing but it can't be my phone!"

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"I'm just not called to help the homeless. Someone else will do it." 

"They will just use the money for drugs or alcohol."

"They might be crazy!"

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"I can't offer prayer to that woman crying in the middle of wal-mart!"

"What will people think?"

"I am not a preacher! I just don't think I could pray for someone."

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"I see the guy no one is talking to at the party."

"It would not be cool to try and include him!" 

"I have an image to uphold!"

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Is that your phone ringing?

What if you are the person God has sent to help the homeless man you walked past on the street?

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What if your prayers for a hurting stranger will be the action that causes them to decide that life is worth living another day?

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What if the outcast sitting at the party see's Jesus through your kindness and decides that he too would like to be a Christian?

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Is that your phone ringing?

In Matthew 25 Jesus tells us, 

"³⁵ For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, ³⁶ I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’³⁷ “Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? ³⁸ When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? ³⁹ When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’⁴⁰ “The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’ (NIV)

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Is that your phone ringing?

My prayer for us all is that as we go through our daily lives that we will learn to answer when our phone rings. 

Instead of making excuses or pretending we don't hear it, I pray that we will stop and answer the call from God.

He puts people and opportunities in our path for a reason.

When you feel in your heart that God is asking you to do something, 

then do it.

To be Christians we should act like Christ.

This is summed up so simply in Matthew 22 when Jesus said, 

“‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’³⁸ This is the first and greatest commandment. ³⁹ And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’"(NIV)

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Is that your phone ringing?

Please answer the call today.

You may be the only Bible that some people ever read.

Thanks for checking out this post and as always remember:

God Loves You!

God Created You!

God Accepts You!

Until Next Time,

SavedByGrace

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