You know what?
We can run to a thousand things
and quickly call somebody on your phone.
Everyone of you just about,
you have a phone right in your pocket,
right in your purse.
It's difficult to mourn
when all of a sudden
you get a text message
and then you respond to it.
I mean right at such time
where you've sinned
and you're actually beginning
to feel something
and have some deep
and real dealings with the Lord.
And suddenly you hear a phone beep
and you actually respond to it.
I'll tell you one of the reasons
we don't go so deep
and we don't mourn so deeply
and we don't weep so bitterly
and we don't contemplate
things like
David did.
It's because we're so caught up in the trivialities.
You know what?
There's a time
to turn off your computer
turn off your phone.
Guys,
when I was a teenager,
phones had cords
that went to the wall.
We didn't even have phones
you can walk around the house with.
There were no phones in cars, yet.
Cell phones,
that was on Star Trek.
I'm saying this because
people actually have
for a long time
lived without these things.
There is a time
to shut them off
and get alone with the Lord.
If you can't do that
you're not gonna know the victories
of the men and women who have gone really deep with the Lord.
That's just the truth.
If you gotta to take
a 12 gage shot gun
and put a slug hole
through the front of your television
in order to get alone with the Lord then do it.