Communication breakdown?

For readers of a certain vintage, the title might bring to mind a song by Led Zeppelin - minus the question-mark.

For all of us it is a fact of life, sometimes fairly trivial but sometimes sadly the backdrop to all kinds of tensions and conflicts.

Last week I had a ‘communication breakdown’ of my own.

We were experiencing problems with our broadband connection, sometimes working, sometimes not. Our router was displaying its range of colours as well as the solid blue supposedly indicating all was well. Anyway it needed an engineer to trace the fault to an external cause. Hopefully by the time this is published all will be well and our communication breakdown will be ended.

We certainly like to communicate and much of modern technology is about keeping in touch. At a fundamental level, I believe that reflects the Christian perspective that we are all made in the image of God, who is the great communicator. He speaks to us through his creation as one of the Bible’s songs tells us - the heavens declare the glory of God, the skies proclaim the work of his hands. The same song goes on to speak of God’s further communication through his word, the Bible itself. The ultimate expression of God’s communication is through his Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. He is described as the Word that became flesh, the incarnation; as the agent and sustainer of creation and as the writer of the letter to the Hebrews puts it, the one through whom God has spoken to us in these last days. Biblically that’s the period from Jesus’ ascension to his promised return.

There is no breakdown in communication from God to us. The problem lies with us. Are we listening to what God is saying to us, not least through his Son?

James

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Beaton,

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