Like a very small child I continue to be amazed at our world. My older son is at this very moment in the Himalayas in Northern India. We are texting back and forth with little if any delay. I can follow his journey on Google Earth along with his texts of where he is and what he is seeing. Several decades ago when my wife and I taught in Uganda in East Africa we were able to call our parents on the phone only by going to the capital city of Kampala and reserving three minutes of phone time on phone cables that ran under the oceans. We had to make the reservation over a month in advance. It was so expensive we could only afford to do it once every eighteen months. Now we get instantaneous messages from the other side of the world included in our regular cell phone plan.
If we are now able to do this how easy it must be for our prayers to instantly ascend to the throne room of God. Some say it is at the center of the universe. Some say that it is beyond the nebulosity in Orion. Someday we will know just exactly where it is. However, being that God is omnipresent we don’t have to be overly concerned about such because our prayers need not leave the room we are in. He is in that room. Actually, we need not even speak them because our bodies are the temple in which He lives should we allow. (He doesn’t force Himself in where He is not invited.) He hears not as we speak. He hears as we think. That is way so much beyond text messages from the Himalayas
Written by Roger Bothwell on December 13, 2010
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