God's Frequency

"If any man have ears to hear, let him hear." Mark 7:16

I have an amateur interest in frequencies: AM radio, shortwave radio, VHF scanners, you name it. I even have a frequency generator "app" on my phone which gives the corresponding tone to a frequency. Sometimes I see if I can guess the frequency to the note I'm hearing in my head (weird, huh? This is the kind of stuff that drives my wife crazy). 

We've all had cheap radios where it's frustrating to tune in to the station we want to, and I swear they're getting cheaper. Most of them don't have the "fine tuning" dial any more, and you're forced to accept whatever frequency the manufacturer has pre-programmed. Add to this all the competing frequencies in the air. If we can't tune in what do we get? Static. 

As "baby" Christians, we were "cheap radios". God's knew we didn't know what we were doing, so He "pre-programmed" some easy-to-find stations with music that was sweet to our ears, and we were happy and content. Then all of a sudden some of those stations didn't work anymore. He replaced our "pre-set" buttons with a manual knob, and we needed to search harder to find a clear station. And when it was clear, it was not what we wanted to hear! What's more, there was some evil radio programmer jamming the airwaves with hurtful garbage! (see Ephesians 2:2) Some of us became annoyed with the Designer of the instrument, but what we didn't know is that we were being re-built into fine instruments capable of hearing the softest sounds (see 1 Kings 19:12). 

The Body of Christ(i.e., the church) today is suffering from what I would call "spiritual static". We have many supposed leaders running to and fro, without any real discernment as to what we should actually be doing. This is because we are not in tune with God's "frequency". 

When we think of frequencies and "getting in harmony", unfortunately these terms have been hijacked in the spiritual realm by New Age religions. But God is the originator of these these! It's time the Body of Christ takes these terms back. For example,recently I've run across a harpist on the internet who claims to know the original pitch (i.e., frequency) King David was playing in, and that this specific frequency (A=444 Hz for you musicians) was given by God and (at least partly) responsible for the healing power David achieved with his harp (see 1 Samuel 16:23). Although I'm extremely wary of the idea of using frequencies for healing, I'm finding the concept interesting, to say the least. (Needless to say, I've begun tuning my guitar to 444!)

Regardless of frequencies in the physical realm, however, God's aim is for us to be more and more attuned to His will. May we allow Him to make us fine-tuned instruments of His, capable of hearing the softest whisper in an age of static.