A clear signal

My wife and I were on our way to church yesterday morning.  There is a radio station that we enjoy that we can pick up during part of our 55 minute drive to church.

 As we head further away from Plymouth, Wisconsin, where the station is located, the signal gets weaker. Soon the background radio "noise" starts kicking in.  The signal that started out pretty clear when we first headed out begins to break up.  The other signals begin intruding, and the praise songs start to become garbled.  It is not long before the noise coming from the speakers is just plain annoying.  We turn off the radio and continue on our way.

There is a parable here.  When we are close to our God, the signal of His message to us comes through loud and clear.  As we move further away, however, the distractions of the world begin to garble God's clear Word.  Soon we can find it just plain annoying and plug the ears of our hearts to what God's Spirit is trying to say to us as we continue on our own way.

There is another option.  That is to turn around.  This is what repentance is all about.  It is turning around and heading the other way.  Rather than moving away from the nearness of God, let's come close.

Hebrews 10:22 - New American Standard Bible® (NASB) let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.