When I went away to college in 1968 my Dad told me that he expected me to write a letter every week. I must have complied because he was paying the bills.
Communication is vastly different today than it was 45 years ago. It started with the US mail and evolved into the Internet. Today you can fax, twitter, text, call on your smart phone while you check the Internet, or email from your phone, iPod or computer.
A friend of mine has a ministry called Face to Face. If you get a chance check it out on the web. It is a sports ministry that started with him interviewing Christian athletes. He would sit down with them, face to face.
So much of our communication today is dependent on technology. It is not personal. It is not face to face. And as much as we humans desire and need deep personal relationships, we seem to prefer the technology.
In the movie "Fiddler on the Roof", Tevye is a milkman that spends his days delivering milk from house to house as he walks along with his old lame horse. Spending most of his time alone, he talks with God constantly, face to face. He doesn’t text or tweet or talk on his cell phone or listen to his iPad.
That’s what Psalm 19 is about, making time for God.
For me, the meaning behind this Psalm is that God is a personal God. He desires to have an intimate relationship with us. He wants us to spend time with Him. He wants us to talk to Him. He wants us to listen to Him through His world and through His Word.
Let’s be sure to get face to face to "our Rock and our Redeemer".
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=psalm%2019&version=NIV;MSG
http://www.biblegateway.com/audio/mclean/niv/Ps.19
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