INTERFERENCE

I know.

This is not a pretty picture.

You have seen prettier pictures.

You have seen better looking snow.

In fact, the snow gets much deeper where you live.

I live back in the hills.  Now the hills here are not very

high.  But the valleys are real deep.  So when a snow

storm hits, it can be a very serious thing.

The day I took this picture I had gone to a morning church

service almost 30 miles from my house.  I knew the storm was

coming.  But it was not supposed to be here until later in the day.

So I threw some weight (wood) in the back of my old work truck

and when to church.  But the storm hit hard while I was in church.

This first point about the storm is not the point of the post.

I just want to give God the thanks.  Then the point of the post.

This storm was one of those dry powdery type of snows.  It 

was slicker than grease.  And on the way back home, many a 

prayer was offered up when one wreck after another was passed.

While squirming up one hill after another.  And taking one detour

after another with the old truck.   But God answered 

every one of them.

When I was about seven miles from the house I finally decided

to give up, park the truck and call for help, knowing I could not get up

 our hill.  So while turning around to go back to an empty parking lot 

I had just passed, one of my grand kids spotted me.  He was in a 

vehicle that would take me anywhere.  I did not even have to get 

the cell phone out.  Isn't God good.

O.K.

The point of today's post.

I attempted to take a picture of the snow falling through the 

kitchen window.  But the storm was abating and the snow 

flakes very small.  However, my problem was I could not 

get on the internet, even to check the weather.

My internet service comes from a cell tower about two 

miles from the house.  Often when storms come I loose

 contact with the cell tower.  Electrical interference from 

thunder storms will do it.  Or as in this case, snow and

other times ice.  I do not know if the signal is lost because

 of all the snow in the air, or if something gets coated with

 snow, ice or a pollutant.  [Incidentally the correct spelling of 

"pollutant" is "politician".]  But ether way, the message does 

not get through because of the interference.  You could 

think of this as the material world interfering with the spiritual

world.

[I know.  You do not believe in "radio waves" because you

cannot see them, touch them, smell them or taste them.  So

they do not exist and never have existed.]

Our lives are the same way.  When they get all cluttered up

with visible things (stuff), cares about food, clothing, riches,

fame or just being "cool" and having fun - then the unseen 

signals sent by God (The cell tower) can not get to us, 

the receiver.

Jesus pointed this out when he said,

"Other people are like the seeds sown among the thorn

bushes.  These are the ones who hear the message, but

the worries about this life, the love for riches, and all

other kinds of desires crowd in and choke the message,

and they don't bear fruit."

(Mark 4:18,19 TEV)

Are "things" or "stuff" causing interference in

your life so God cannot communicate with you?