Comunicación

Durante un vuelo de avión, no hay comunicación constante que implica su plano. You may not have understood anything you have read thus far. The reason is it has all been in Spanish. Therefore if you do not speak Spanish we have not been able to communicate, that is what I want to write about today, Communication!

During an airplane flight, there is constant communication that involves your plane. The air traffic controllers clear your pilot for takeoff, and later at another tower, they will clear him for landing. They stay in touch the whole time between the takeoff and the landing. There is more to the flight than just the beginning and the end. The pilot needs to know if there are other planes nearby or of bad weather that demands a change of plans. It's good the pilot doesn't turn off communication with the tower after he takes off. I noticed something the other day in Genesis chapter 11 that I never have given much thought.
Genesis 11:6
And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.

Genesis 11:7 Go
to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
We live in a day of great communication or do we? Cell phones, voice mail, text messages, e-mails; just to name a few. But you know none of them are any good unless you respond. A message left in your voice message is no good if you fail to respond to it, a text message is worthless if you fail to answer it and what good is an e-mail if you don't read it and reply. So how good is communication? Well God saw fit to mess up a language to stop a people. As I read this I got to thinking that maybe during the night God changed the language and on the next morning Joe Brown got up to go build on the tower and began to speak to his wife in Spanish not realizing he was speaking in another language. His wife answered him back not knowing anything had changed. While Tom Smith got up and spoke to his wife in French while his wife communicated back not knowing they were both speaking and understanding in French. Now when everyone got to work, they all began to notice they were not communicating with each other and the work came to a halt. Now if we fail to listen we will almost for certain fail in our communication with others. The same is true with God if we never learn to pray, if we fail to listen as we read our Bibles then we are not going to be able to communicate with our heavenly Father and that's for sure. If the pilot get busy listening to a CD and fails to listen to the tower when the tower is warning him about an oncoming danger then that will be disastrous simply because of failure to communicate. The problem with busy people is they failed to check in with the tower when they took off in the morning, and then they didn't check in at the end of the day's flight. Which means we have made a hundred little decisions on our own without ever consulting the Lord? We get cut off from the tower, so we end up in a lot of turbulence and sometimes get off course. We crash into people and we make unnecessary mistakes. Following Jesus means listening to the Spirit's directing all day long, not just at the beginning and the end. So you either communicate or o no está! So listen up today and stay in touch with the tower! Communicate first with the Lord and then with each other so you will not crash.