Are You Available?

One of the biggest catastrophes of our time is that no body is available.

Fathers are not available for their sons. They are busy trading stocks on Wall Street from their high ceiling offices downtown. Mothers are not available for their daughters. They are busy working 12 hour jobs and shopping for the next fashion trend. Husbands are not available for their wives. Wives are not available for their husbands. Dog owners are not available for their dogs. Dogs are left in the hands of dog sitters. The owners can’t walk their dogs anymore. They hire dog walkers. They are not available for their dogs. Your local phone company is not available for you. They have left you in the hands of some outsourced customer service representative who you can’t figure out a word that she says. People are simply not available

I am really not so bothered who is and who is not available for me. What bothers me is our audacity to not be available for God. You would think that people would fear to log off and sign out of God’s care and love. But this is not true. People are not available for God either. Today’s God has become a God of convenience. He is an accessory to our daily costume of restless living. We pick him up when we need him. We put him down when we don’t need him. God’s will is that you be available when he needs you. I know we all want to be important. We all want to be needed. And it is okay to want to be needed because that is why God created you. God made you so you can be needed. God did not create anyone that he did not want to be needed. Everything God created was needed and is needed. But to be usable you must be available. If you are not available you are not usable.

Today my challenge to you is that instead of spending sleepless nights wondering what God wants you to do with your life, just spend more time with him letting him know you are available. You will be shocked how much he can do with you when you become available. Those coincidences which are actually not so coincidental will start happening more often. The earth will start aligning itself to meet your needs. You will release the power of the divine to work on your side. Things you didn’t know existed will start becoming alive to you. I am speaking to you from experience. Ideas and dreams are everywhere. Think of people who have made a fortune. Garbage collecting companies have made millions disposing of other people’s trash. Ideas are everywhere but you need to become aware of them. The only way God can breathe on you those life changing ideas is when you become available and tune in to him through prayer, reading his word and walking with him everyday in holiness and humility.

Are you available?