Oh, oh oh on the radio...

I love music. All kinds of music. Well, maybe rap and screamo is an exception...but even those I can appreciate sometimes. I mostly listen to the Christian radio, but I occasionally channel surf to listen to other genres. This morning, I was surfing and this new song came on by Brooks and Dunn. It caught my ear right away:

That anchor man says the fight began somewhere in the Middle East.
The world prays for peace.
There's a single mom just got laid off when she lost a job
to some foreign hands in some faraway land.
Last night in Oklahoma some twister took thirteen
and they're praying that they findthe missing three.
God must be busy.

I almost did a double take when I first heard these words. I found myself talking to the radio, "WHAT did you just say?" The song continued...

That highway sign went from slow ahead to traffic's dead.
Thought it couldn't get worse than that Amber Alert. They say she's 4,
Colorado plates, headed out-of-state in a Chevy van.
It's hard to understand.
You can see it in the faces of all those highway strangers,
they're praying that Godkeeps that girl from danger.
God must be busy.

My comment, as Brooks and Dunn continued singing, was "Surely they are going to bring this around and tell the listener the REAL lesson, that GOD'S NOT BUSY!" If you'd have been inside my car, you'd have been shocked to hear me hollering at the medal knobs and lighted display like it was going to change something. The song continued...

And I know in the big picture I'm just a speck of sand
and God's got better things to do than look out for one man.
I know he's heard my prayers cause he hears everything,
he just ain't answered back or he'd bring you back to me.
God must be busy.

There's no need sharing the rest of the lyrics with you. The message doesn't change. What happened to me in my car, though, was the sudden realization that there are mixed messages all around us. I felt the urge to roll the windows down and shout...GOD'S NOT TOO BUSY!

I'm sorry. God has no answering machine. The Bible says, "He hears me when I call." It doesn't say "Leave a message and I'll get back to you." It says, "He knows the number of hairs on my head...and yours...and yours...and his...and hers." If He has time to care about the number of hairs on my head, He's NOT TOO BUSY. It says to "Be anxious in NOTHING because HE cares." It says, "He will not leave us or forsake us." It says that He is LOVE. He's the giver of peace. I could go on and on and on...

I believe He's there in the Middle East. He's present when the single Mother loses her job to the global economy. He cares deeply for the little girl who is taken from her family in a senseless crime. He walks through every storm of life with us...calming the waves both figuratively and literally. He helps us when we are lost. And He never ever ever has better things to do than to "look out for one man" (or woman). Nope. THIS time, this duo's got it wrong. Dead wrong.

I could not go another blogging minute without doing the very thing I was wishing the lyricist would magically do on my radio today...bring the message around...because when we, in our human eyes, THINK God's too busy (and admittedly I have before), we have to think again.

For the truth is that GOD'S NOT TOO BUSY for anything or anyone. And that's a promise you can hang your hat on!