Frequency

We often scan the skies looking for God but in reality, we should primarily be looking to other human beings to see God in action. God most often uses a person to complete His work in this world. He doesn’t usually use signs in the sky to rephrase the Truth of Scripture, he uses the repeater or reader of Scripture. A person. The believer and sometimes inadvertently a non-believer. Yet in our zeal for worship of the person instead of the message we miss the message completely. Our reception gets blocked because we blind ourselves to it. Instead of a coherent message. We receive only static.

Why does our connection become distorted? In a word: Sin. Sin distorts the signal coming from the Transmitter.

Sin is a distorter. Sin clouds the skies. It jams the message’s transmission. That’s what the Gospel is. A message transmitted over the airwaves. Through sound waves. PA systems and radio amplify the signal or the waves but it is the Spirit that accepts it and amplifies it in our soul. When we suppress the witness or truth of the Spirit of God, we not only block the transmission of God to our heart through the Scripture, we block the truths it attempts to have us embody. Things like living our neighbor as ourselves. In this way the message of God never fully downloads into us like an attachment on the message sent in the transmission.  To receive the message perfectly we must be attuned to it not fiddling with other knobs in our lives. If we do tinker too much with our tuning mechanism, we can end up out of phase. Unreceptive. What we then discharge out to others is a distortion of the original message. A distortion of a distortion. A bad copy of a bad copy. Interference. This can turn others off to the original message we were meant to send out.

We cannot send the message if we alienate the recipients. We cannot have the receiver of the message receive it if the receiver is shut off. If we turned the receiver off to the message. We push the receiver so far away it cannot pick up the signal sent from the broadcast source. We act as a carrier signal of the broadcast. If our actions push the receiver too far away the message never reaches them. They can therefore not rebroadcast to other receivers in a self-perpetuating chain of broadcast and rebroadcast. A series of announcement and transmission.

God is the highest frequency that can get through. Sometime he chooses to use the direct method but this can overpower the receiver. Blow it out. Unless it is acclimated or strengthened to deal with the increased power it can be overwhelmed or stunned. No, He often He chooses to send his message through a lower frequency through a lower line of transfer but still powered by the Spirit. If the message gets diluted or attenuated it can easily be lost in the static. It then needs a repeater that increases the power of a signal and retransmits it, allowing it to travel further. Since it amplifies the signal, it constantly requires a continued source of power. The Spirit. The Scriptures. Reamplifying, repeating, reiterating.

The receiver needs to be tuned the right frequency. It needs to be tuned within the correct bandwidth.  There is a possibility that there will be resistance within each receiver to the message. So, the only way to overcome the resistance and increase possibility of reception is by opening more channels to the source of transmission.

Obstacles will cause our receiving frequency to oscillate causing the receivers behavior to fluctuate also. Is the message wrong or the message being distorted? We’ll need to scan the Scriptures and the world to verify whether the message has come through true or in error. We need to analyze the things we hear coming from God to assure they’re actually coming from God and not a counterfeit broadcast source. A pirated or hijacked wavelength. We’ll need to do the same when hearing the messages from earthly origins. From human origins not just divine.

Above all we’ll need to maintain radio silence on the correct frequency until we hear the needed incoming transmissions. An open channel on a two-way radio. Once received we will need to relay it to others in the same way we received it leaving nothing out for fear of altering the intent of the communication. New units will hear and possibly record for later use or to echo the original. Resonating in the earpiece of another.

An SOS sent out. A message of salvation returned. Repeated over and over. The Gospel. An eternal broadcast for the right receiver at the right place at the right time and for those with ears to hear. As long as they’re tuned to the correct frequency.

<….I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures><over>

<message received> <over>

<Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age> <over>

<message received> <over>

<It is finished> <over>