A Dutch artist, Johan van der Dong, has set up a dedicated mobile phone number, to act as a kind of hot line to God. People can leave messages to God on the voicemail system. The aim of his work is to focus attention on changes to the ways Dutch people perceive religion. The work which is part of an instalation in the university city of Groningen, officialy begins on Sunday, but already over a thousand messages have been left.
This started me thinking; might God respond to the messages? If He does how will the artist react? More importantly what message would you leave?
As a Christian I beleive that I don't need to leave a mesage for God on an answer phone, as I can get straight through to Him, He's never engaged! That said I think this phone line is a great idea, as I'm of the mind that anything that makes people think about our relationship with God and encourages people to speak to him is generaly a good idea. I just hope that people take His answers seriously and don't write them off as figments of artistic imagination.
Lets pray that many use this opportunity phone God and are delighted to find him at home and patiently waiting to hear from them!
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