The Parable of the Cell Phone
Cell phones are wonderful
inventions! People can get a hold of you
any time of day or night! You can be in
contact with other people any time and be more effective in making your
contacts. There are some things that can
hinder this productiveness, though. You can
be in an area that doesn’t have a good cell signal and have dropped and/or
missed calls. You can also have your
phone shut off because you don’t want to be bothered. The most irritating thing, in my opinion,
that can hinder your productiveness is that your battery can lose all of its
power and render your cell phone useless.
Another sad thing that can happen is that due to financial trouble, you
can’t pay your bill and your phone is shut off.
So it is in our lives with the
Holy Ghost and prayer. We can be in
direct contact 24/7 with our Father in Heaven when we are in tune with the
Spirit and pray constantly. We will get
all our calls and messages and become more effective in living and teaching the
gospel.
If we choose to do things that drive the Spirit away, such
as watch a not so good movie or participate in unworthy activities, our signal
is not as strong as it could be. You
will miss the calls from Heavenly Father that could prove vital to your well
being or your very life! You could have
been having a wonderful day where you felt the Spirit and were in tune, but by
doing one bad thing, your call is dropped.
If we become angry
at God and turn from Him, it is like shutting our phone off. We may think we are punishing the one we do
not wish to communicate with, but it cuts us off from more than just one person
when we do this. We miss all our calls
and all our messages and we are spiritually shut off.
The saddest thing that can happen is that we just let our
battery die or our spirit gets disconnected from the Holy Ghost. This happens when we consciously or
unconsciously forget to charge our spirit so that we can be in tune with the
Holy Ghost. This happens when we forget
to pray, read our scriptures and do the other good things that we know we need
to do. Sometimes we may be “too busy” or
else have other things to do that we think are more important. This is not so! The battery is our spirit and what keeps us
going!
I hope and pray that as we go about our daily lives, that
we remember to continually charge our battery, keep our phone on and stay in a
good signal receiving area so that we can learn the things that will make us
happy in this life and in our eternal lives after our probation is complete.
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