Are you a country-western music fan? I came across this video recently and really like it. And it is something I can very much identify with.
Yes, God is standing on the sideline just waiting to be invited in, but it is no game being played. It is as serious as it can get. And it reminds me of another song I really like where God is being asked “Can You reach my friend?”… followed by the proclamation “You’re the only One who can!” I noticed that in that song it mentions that the friend is “searching”. And that reminds me of what I went thru many years ago. I had just got out of the navy having returned to civilian life. I had just got into CB (citizen’s band) radio both in my car and my home. Anyone who knows the first thing about CB radio knows that CBer’s use various names to identify themselves to other CBers. Those names are called “handles”. As time passed by I had a few different handles I used. I can’t remember the handle I started out with. I do remember “Questor” which I used while searching for something I wasn’t sure of. And when I found the answer I was looking for I changed my handle to “King’s kid”. CB radio didn’t last all that long for me. I got out of it and sold some of my equipment and donated the rest of it to my church to be used in their bus ministry.
You may be on a search of some sort in your life. You may not know what it is you are looking for, but I can tell you that Jesus Christ is your answer. He wants to make Himself real to you. Or like this song you may be experiencing some sort of trouble or issue which has you down. You may feel you need help. Again, Jesus is your answer. Nothing is impossible or too difficult for Him to handle. Just call on His Name and experience the salvation of the Lord.\
Lastly, I leave you with a CB joke …
A man and his wife find themselves struggling along in their marriage as they both are very intelligent and it seems to cause them disharmony in their daily relationship. They realized that they needed help so while the wife visited her doctor she talked to him about the matter hoping he could help somehow. The doctor told her about some new technology just out … a machine which could reduce a person’s IQ … and he suggested that one of them should have their IQ lowered. He further explained that she and her husband talk it over and decide which one of them should have their IQ lowered. Another appointment was made for them giving them time to make their decision. They showed up and explained that they had decided on the husband being the one to have his IQ lowered. The doctor explained that they needed to be sure of what they were doing as there was no reversal of this action. They understood and made another appointment for the procedure in just a couple of days later. They showed up and the husband was taken into an exam room while the wife remained in the main lobby area. The husband was hooked up to the machine and the doctor turned it on. It started buzzing and clicking away just like it was designed to do. All was going well when suddenly a nurse came running into the exam room to tell the doctor that there was a serious emergency that he needed to attend to. The doctor rushed out of the exam room to the emergency. Meanwhile the husband remained hooked up to the machine as it was working lowering the IQ of the man. The doctor had the emergency under control when he suddenly remembered the husband hooked up to the machine. He rushed back into the exam room and shut the machine off. He looked at the husband who was sitting there with his mouth open and drooling. The doctor thought “Oh my, how am I going to explain this?” He went out to talk to the wife and explain things to her the best he could. Then he said to her that he needed to explain things to her husband, but he did not know how well that was going to go as he didn’t know just what the husband was capable of understanding. The doctor said that he would try to use as simple of language as he could. They both went into the exam room and the doctor started speaking to the husband trying to explain the situation to him. The husband just sat there with a stupid look on his face and continued to drool. When the doctor had finished telling the husband he asked the husband if he understood. The husband simply answered with some difficulty in speaking … “10-4, good buddy”.