We've never had a doorbell.
Our attention has been eventually drawn
to visitors on our front step either by their frustrated pounding on
the front door or the loud and incessant barking of the two dogs on
our side of it.
Until now.
Because we were so intrigued by ads for
the same we'd seen on TV, a Ring video doorbell found itself wrapped
and waiting for installation under the Christmas tree this past
holiday season. Now in place, our eyes have literally been opened to
what used to be just a matter of conjecture on the amount of traffic
occurring outside our home.
Purchased primarily for protection
purposes, the Ring has met all our expectations. Being able to see
and speak from a distance to whoever might be on the property,
whether they wish to be seen or not, has added greatly to our peace
of mind when we're away from the house as well as just in a distant
room in the back of it.
Not that there haven't been a few scary
moments, such as when alerts have lit up the cell phone in the middle
of the night. But a pounding heart quickly calms when a check of the
video shows nothing but a passing possum, a leaf blown by in the
wind, or even nothing at all but pitch darkness rather than an
intruder bent on entry.
Far more wonderful have been the
unexpected joys of seeing a
package you've been waiting for delivered, a family member arrive
safely home... or the latest, our neighbor plowing out our
driveway after the most recent round of snow! Talk about joy! We
would have discovered these blessings eventually upon our return
home, but our days were made immeasurable happier by being made aware
of them while they were happening.
Too often as believers our vision is
limited by what we can see with our physical eyes. Yet the gift of
the Holy Spirit is waiting to be opened up and activated, a portal
into a whole other realm of activity going on around us that we would
otherwise be unaware of. It not only alerts us to the dangers of
fear, negative thinking, and the restrictions of conventional
wisdom... but it brings into view the provision that is available and
waiting for us, and gives us the ability to access it and appropriate
it into our lives right now. The wisdom, healing, direction...every
form of heavenly help we need... is suddenly at our fingertips,
waiting for us to pick up and use. How wonderful that we don't need
to wait till we get to our heavenly Home to realize these joys, but
that God's intent is that we see and enjoy and use them for His
Glory while we need them here on earth. And how sad if we pass
through this life leaving the help we longed for sitting at our front
door...simply because we didn't know it was there.
“But the Helper
(Comforter, Advocate, Intercessor – Counselor, Strengthener,
Standby), the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name... He
will teach you all things. And He will help you remember everything
that I have told you.”
John 14:26 AMP
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