Keeping Talking To Jesus

 

There is a great Casting Crowns Song that is called “Follow Me,” in which he chorus says, “when you are at the end of yourself, follow Me, we I have lost my way, follow Me.” The song encapsulates a truth of the Christian walk, that when all our bearings go away and we feel as if everything is topsy turvey, keeping following Jesus.  While I agree with this sentiment, I would add one more level to it, “Keep Talking to Jesus.” One of the common things we do as humans is when troubles beset us we either go to human consul, or we do all this research via YouTube, and etc, to get a handle on it. And while these are noble and good things, they cannot be a substitute for talking to the Savior. 

Talking to Christ really is jus prayer, prayer is talking to our Lord. It can be more formal with closed hands and eyes closed, or as you walk about under your breath, or in tongues, or recitations like the Our Father. The point is you are talking to Jesus, and that is the important thing. In any relationship, if communication ceases, rot begins to take place, because you are no longer expressing yourselves to one another, nor hearing each other’s voice or from one another. In a culture that encourages ghosting, that is cutting people off with no explanation, and ripping them out of their lives, we have to practice the counter cultural of connecting into the Holy Ghost, and keeping communicating with The Holy Trinity. The temptation in our stress is to seek out other people to talk to, and that is not a bad thing, you need a support group, but it is not a substitute for talking with the Son of God, who is the One who so loved you He died on a cross to reconcile you to God (Romans 5:10), and who broke down barriers of sin so you could easily access the throne of God, “So let us come boldly to the throne of our gracious God. There we will receive his mercy, and we will find grace to help us when we need it most,” (Hebrews 4:16), and  “And so, dear brothers and sisters, we can boldly enter heaven’s Most Holy Place because of the blood of Jesus..” (Hebrews 10:19). 

I would claim there is a direct correlation to the dissolving or at the very least eroding of a relationship when communication stops. When you reach that point you no longer talk, the silence is filled with paranoid thoughts, bad assumptions, lies from the Enemy, and plethora of ideas that may be predicated on feelings, not the reality of what is going on. In the same way, if we neglect to Talk to Jesus, we are letting the void of silence be filled by Satan’s barbs, but our own insecurity over sins, and so much more. If you would just dial up Christ, and talk, you would know that He is the God who said, “I will never leave you or forsake you,” (Hebrews 13:5) and “come to me all who are weary and  need rest.” (Matthew 11:28). But when we cease communication, we can allow cold caricatures of Christ from religious people, and other misrepresentations to make our Lord seem like someone we’d not want to talk to. That is the insidious nature of neglecting prayer, not because you are being scored or measured for how often you pray, but that if you neglect it, you are cutting off communication with Christ and it will get harder and harder for you to want to get in contact; just as it is with people we have not talk to in some time, we put if off, and the gap, the chasm between grows. 

The key is just talk. Forget how you feel you should start talking, and just do it. Just reach out to Jesus and start talking. If you are angry, tell Him, just get the dialogue going because your faith walk depends on it, your eternity depends on it. The devil is looking for people to devour (1 Peter 5:8), and he has an easier time doing so with people not talking to the LORD. As the old saying goes, “Satan trembles the most when a Christian is on their knees in prayer,” because prayer is powerful, but because it means you are connecting with The Holy Trinity of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Amen.