Ring Tones

Last night, we had a group of young people at the house for Discipling. While the goal has been to impart what little we have to those who are in the house, invariably we are the ones who always learn something. That is what is so cool about discipling. It goes both ways.
While they were at the house, we learned about a new ring tone. A ring tone that older people can't hear. At first, I thought they were messing with our heads and that there was no such thing. However, Jim got on the internet and did some research and found that it was true. The ring tone was developed as a high pitched sound that only young people could hear and was to be used to keep young people from loittering around places. The tone would be played and they wouldn't want to stay around. While at the same time, the older people couldn't hear it.
Now it is being passed as a ring tone on cell phones. A tone that older people-paricularly anyone over 25 can't hear at all, but that younger people describe as a high pitched tone.
So Jim, in his classic humor, thought it would be fun to mess with those who were in the house by sounding the tone in the house on a regular basis until it drove them nuts. They kept yelling at him to stop it, while I was oblivious to the sound or to why they were so upset they were getting agitated with him because he kept playing it. He thought it was funny because we couldn't hear it....that is until about 10 minutes later.
While I could not hear the tone, it seems to have still had an effect on me, because shortly after all this was going I began to realize I had a headache and another complained of their ear hurting. We could not hear the sound, but it still adversely effected us. There were those who heard the sound and fought against it because it hurt their ears, while there were others of us who couldn't hear, but were still effected by it.
Isn't that just like our battle with the enemy? There are those who see and hear the enemy coming. And then there are those who can't hear or see, but are still effected by it.
Isn't that just like sin in our lives? Some of it we can see and hear, while there are other things that we don't see or hear, but are still effected by.
Isn't that just like what is going on around us all the time? We may not see or hear what is going on, but we are still effected by it.
The Bible says in Zeph 3:17 "The LORD thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing." God is rejoicing over us with singing. He is singing over us right now. We can't hear it. We can't see it. But He is. And just like a ring tone that we can't hear, it still effects us.
What goes on around us that we can't see or hear effects us. Whether it is warfare or singing, just because we can't hear it doesn't mean we are not effected by it. This should make us all the more dependent upon those who can see and hear. It should make us trust the One who is SINGING over us instead leaning on our own understanding-because we are blind and deaf. We need Him. I am so thankful that while there is a battle that rages around me that I can not see or hear that my God is singing over me and that the effects of that will ring true over those things that long to steal my soul. ALL FOR YOU