Going to Great Lengths

Today, I'm writing following a stressful night.
I've had a lot of phone trouble lately and it's really starting to irritate me. Since November I've been on my back up because my upgrade doesnt come till March 1st (almost here!!) but last night, that decided to go down the drain too! My dad apparently had to have the screen repaired when he carried the phone and I guess I got the bad end of the deal.
Anyways, I was right in the middle of a conversation with someone important and as I was waiting for their next text to see what they would say, my screen goes completely white! It started doing this the other day but would come back normal after about 30 seconds...this time it didn't. 3 hours of a white screen got me extremely frustrated! I had felt my phone vibrate from receiving 2 text messages and I just knew they were from that person and I was out to do anything I could to read them! My heart was set on finding out what they had to say to me!
It was in my moment of anger when the thought occurred to me...I shouldn't be doing all of this to see what some random person had to say, I should be doing all of this to see what God is wanting to say to me. I had gone through great lengths to find out what someone, who was very important to me, had said but in the past couple months I haven't had that same determination to find out what God has been saying to me.
He SCREAMS out for us to hear Him because He has so much He wants us to know about Him but we've gotten so wrapped up in our own world that we seek words from others rather than words from Him. Maybe this is just be, but I have a feeling there's gotta be someone out there that has been selfishly doing the same thing.
God has sent us His words in a non-technological way so that we can access it at any time, yet we are trapped in our world of technology. When will we realize that our faith is found in the words of God rather than the words of our text messages?
When will I seek Him rather than seek someone else?
Pastor Hennesy has been doing a sermon series called God's Text Messages. They've been great sermons and very meaningful, but honestly, it didn't effect me until my phone broke last night. What has he really been meaning by "God's Text Messages"? I think subliminally, it was a way of opening our eyes to compare our desire to receive text messages from humans to what our desire is to receive text messages from God.

It only takes one spark to make a flame, and one flame to start a fire...I'm on the road to being set on fire once again.

Maybe this means nothing to anyone else but myself or maybe it's encouraging to someone. Who Knows. But God is screaming out for us to listen to him, to desire to know what he says, and to Go to Great Lengths to hear Him. Listen.

XoXo