At times we take things for granted and don’t realize how much we really depend on them. Yesterday, while working in a bookstore booth for a college football game, I drop a hand-held scanner on my cell phone and broke the screen. Not only can I not see what is on the screen but it rendered my phone to nothing but an expensive piece of electronic junk.
After just 24 hours of not having my cell phone, I realize just how much I use it. Scary in a way, that I depend so much on that dumb smart phone to keep me updated on family members by just a simple text. Now without a phone, I feel lost and disoriented and out of touch.

As Christians, sometimes we take God for granted. We know God is there watching over us, but we fail to give God His time alone with us. It may take more than 24 hours, but without communication with Him, we will start to feel lost and out of touch, finding ourselves in situations otherwise we would have avoided.

Just because we call ourselves’ children of God, doesn’t give us the excuse to ever take God for granted. We need to communicate with Him on a continual basis by reading His word, bowing our heads of quiet time in prayer and thanking Him for all the blessings He has given us even when we don’t feel like it. Non-believers may think they have control of their lives and don’t want to know or have anything to do with God, but as Christians, we know this will only lead to death. Not just physical death but spiritual and everlasting death.

It is easy to take God for granted especially when everything is going smoothly. At these times in our lives we tend to forget that God has blessed us with time of rest. It is at these resting times,
we should be communicating with God even more and thanking Him for what He has taught us from our past trials. In the bible, David going through trials or rest always looked to the Lord and said “Bless the Lord all my soul” even when he didn’t feel like it, because he knew where his strength came from.

I will get over my dependency of my cell phone, but I don’t ever want to get over my dependency of God. God is my refuge and strength in times of good and bad.  Bless the Lord oh my soul, for your ways are always just and righteous.