Today's discussion centers on the promise of God's support, which stands in stark contrast to the often impersonal assistance we receive from technology and customer service. I explore how Jeremiah 33:3 highlights God's readiness to respond when we call upon Him, offering immediate and personal support. Unlike automated systems that leave us feeling frustrated, God's assistance is unconditional and accessible at any time. We delve into the importance of seeking wisdom, encouragement, and perseverance in our daily lives, especially during challenging times. Ultimately, I encourage listeners to cultivate a conversational relationship with God, allowing Him to be the first source we turn to for help.
Takeaways:
God offers personal, immediate, and unconditional support, unlike automated systems we often encounter.
Asking for wisdom during trials helps us understand the purpose behind our difficulties.
We should develop a conversational relationship with God to seek His help more easily.
Encouragement from others and from God can lift our spirits during challenging times.
Perseverance in difficult situations can lead to clarity and understanding if we ask for help.
It's important to turn to God for support before feeling overwhelmed by our burdens.
Welcome to the Hobo Soul Podcast of Road Advice from the Bible and from me, Yvon Prehn someone who's a little further down the road of life.
I'll talk to you every Tuesday and Thursday for about 10 minutes, and if you'd like more in depth information on walking with Jesus, you can find that at my www.bible805.com website. For now, let's get started on our topic for today, which is episode number 63
Real 24/7 Support
God's speaking in our verse for today, where he says in Jeremiah 33:3 Call to me and I'll answer you.
In contrast, many computers and software companies promise support 24. 7. Now that sounds good.
But that support is an often endless series of automatic messages, referrals to canned answers, or a solution to go to the website and there try to figure out the solution yourself. Today. More often than not you'll encounter an AI agent, and the results of that can range from efficient to kind of creepy.
In response, you can either keep trying various options in frustration or just give up, knowing it's almost impossible to talk to a human being. In contrast, God's promise of support is personal, immediate, and unconditional. If we call, he answers.
Here are some reminders of what we can ask for when we call, we can call out to him for wisdom. James 1. 5 Promises that when we ask for wisdom, he'll give it to us.
I think it's interesting that this verse talks about asking for wisdom when we're in the middle of a trial. That reminds me when I think and remember that this is what he says, that instead of just instinctively screaming get me out of this.
If you if I ask for wisdom and slow down enough to listen, I often realize that the difficulty God has me in has a purpose. Perhaps the timing isn't right, or I need to correct something in my life that actually caused the difficulty that I'm experiencing.
I need wisdom because I don't see the reasons why things happen or the future consequences of what happens, however I respond. But the Lord does, and if we wait to act based on the wisdom that he gives, it can save us, perhaps sad, unintended future consequences.
We need wisdom in our work lives.
Today, many of us work with computers, and along with that, what's happened in kind of subtle ways, in ways we're seldom aware of, is that we compare ourselves to the computer. Computers don't ever get tired. Computers can work around the clock, and I admit I've tried to be like that sometimes. But but people aren't like that.
And still we try without thinking. We assume we need to be a machine that never wears down, quits or gets discouraged.
It's very much in process what AI is going to do in this area in how we view ourselves. But we must slow down and realize that it is an influence and to not accept it without thinking.
The Lord is often the only one who can lift your spirit in a job that either is imposed from outside you or maybe you do it to yourself that looks at people as machines. And when that happens, call out to the Lord for encouragement.
We can ask for exterior encouragement, perhaps for a friend or a co worker to be there for us and to cheer us on, or at least to understand what we're going through.
We can call out for the courage to get out of our rooms, our houses, wherever we might be, hunkering down so that we can be around people or places that will encourage us no matter where we are. We can ask that the Lord Himself encourage our hearts. We can ask him to help us understand and make reality in our lives.
His words where he says the joy of the Lord is our strength and we can allow that quiet joy that he gives to bubble up inside us. We can call out to him for perseverance.
Sometimes we think we can simply figure out a challenging project or finish a class or deal with a difficult person for one more hour. Yet if we stay with it just a little bit longer, praying at the same time for insight and strength, and all the time calling quietly for his help.
Like a fog lifting when the sun comes out suddenly, the challenge is over. Our next steps are clear. We made it through what we thought we couldn't bear.
And of course we couldn't bear it because we alone just aren't able, but because we ask. Jesus quietly came alongside and carried the weight of our burden. Train yourself to always call out to God first.
So often we ask for his help as the last resort. Now he's merciful and kind and answers no matter when we remember to ask Him.
But we could save ourselves a lot of frustration by asking for his help first. Asking him first comes more easily when we've developed a conversational relationship with Him.
If we're constantly talking to him about all parts of our lives in a day by day, day long dialogue, we'll realize that we can call out for help just in the same way you would with any close friend. Of course he'll help. He's right there beside you. You just turn to him and ask what we can call out to him sometimes not for anything specific at all.
That's part of what having a conversational relationship with Jesus is all about. Some days it seems like nobody on earth pays attention or cares. That may or may not be true, but it doesn't matter. Call out to your God.
Actually just turn to Him. He's right there beside you.
He cares about you and is ready to listen and help with any Every concern you have 247 that's all for this podcast, for transcripts, links to related material, and much more to help you learn to know, trust, apply and teach the bible. Go to www.bible805.com for now, let me end with this benediction and prayer.
May you walk each day surrounded by the gracious love of the Father, guided by the gentle wisdom of the Holy Spirit, and conscious of the astoundingly real presence of Jesus, who will walk with you until you're no more a hobo soul, no more a transient wandering heart, but at home in the kingdom prepared for you with your God forever. Amen.
