Tuning In
Fergus Buchanan
October 26, 2025
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Joel 2: 28
28 ‘And afterwards,
I will pour out my Spirit on all people.
Your sons and daughters will prophesy,
your old men will dream dreams,
your young men will see visions.
I have driven through the Clyde Tunnel in Glasgow many times. Often I’ve had the radio on. However, the deeper you descend into the tunnel the more disturbed the signal becomes until all you hear is that annoying static. It’s always a relief to start coming up and once again to hear the voices or the music loud and clear.
It can be like this in our journey with God. There are times when we feel our contact with Him has been distorted because of disappointment, moral failure or personal suffering. It may seem as if we are actually living without God. His signals are not getting through. It’s then that we need to fall back on the things that have sustained our faith in the past: prayer, Scripture, worship, the fellowship of friends. Hanging on to those enables us to keep tuned in to God, to come through the spiritual static and once again experience what the Psalmist calls the ‘unfailing love’ of God.
Joel spoke of the day when the Spirit would be poured out on ‘all people’, our personal and eternal contact with God. No matter how we may feel in days of challenge we are part of God’s great purpose to redeem the Universe in His Son Jesus. This, in a sense, is God’s dream which He has shared with His people and which sustains us and revitalises us in every circumstance of life.
Prayer:
Heavenly Father,
Whenever we hit those rough patches which threaten to derail us, give us grace to look to those things which alone can set us on the right track once more. By Your Word, read and preached, in keeping company with You in prayer, in the blessing of Christian fellowship, establish us once more in the knowledge of your goodness and love. Amen.
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