I love watching classic TV shows from my childhood and seeing them through the eyes of an adult. Sometimes they are funnier. Sometimes they are dumber. And sometimes they throw out a zinger.
One fave of mine is WKRP in Cincinnati which runs every Sunday. I’ve always thought if I were a DJ, I’d want to be like Dr. Johnny Fever. But I could never be as cool as Johnny. And radio isn’t big like it was in the 70s, so I’m out of luck all the way around. But watching the other night I heard God talking to me and so did Johnny.
The episode is called, appropriately, God Talks to Johnny and in it, Dr. Fever thinks he’s heard a voice talking to him in his apartment and he believes it’s God. He asks everyone at the radio station if they believe in God and do they think God talks to people. He can’t believe that God might talk to him. Of all people.
In the end, he calls the station owner, Mr. Carlson, and has him meet him around 3am at the local hospital’s psych ward and is ready to check himself in. He’s waited the entire time to talk to this man, who is the one person on the show that he knows is a religious man. One who attends church regularly and even teaches Sunday School.
Mr. Carlson wants to know what God said to Johnny and he tells him that God told him that he loves him and wants him to do great things. Finally frustrated, Mr. Carlson tells Johnny that even if it’s not God talking to him, how could it be bad when someone tells you that they love you? Johnny still hems and haws over believing it’s God and questions how can he know that God is talking to him? How can he know it’s really God? Mr. Carlson finally replies, “Listen buster, if God has something he wanted to say, you'd hear it!”
Well, I think he got it right folks. I really think he did..
Personally, I spend a lot of time praying to God for answers. I have so many questions and so few answers. I always pray for big, bright, flashing neon signs so that if God is speaking to me, I’ll know that it’s really Him doing the talking. But I frequently lose sight of the fact that if God has something to say to me, then I’d hear it. I’d know it was God talking to me without having to wonder and question and ponder.
I am really hoping God has something He wants to say to me. And I hope I’ve cleared my head enough to hear it.
One fave of mine is WKRP in Cincinnati which runs every Sunday. I’ve always thought if I were a DJ, I’d want to be like Dr. Johnny Fever. But I could never be as cool as Johnny. And radio isn’t big like it was in the 70s, so I’m out of luck all the way around. But watching the other night I heard God talking to me and so did Johnny.
The episode is called, appropriately, God Talks to Johnny and in it, Dr. Fever thinks he’s heard a voice talking to him in his apartment and he believes it’s God. He asks everyone at the radio station if they believe in God and do they think God talks to people. He can’t believe that God might talk to him. Of all people.
In the end, he calls the station owner, Mr. Carlson, and has him meet him around 3am at the local hospital’s psych ward and is ready to check himself in. He’s waited the entire time to talk to this man, who is the one person on the show that he knows is a religious man. One who attends church regularly and even teaches Sunday School.
Mr. Carlson wants to know what God said to Johnny and he tells him that God told him that he loves him and wants him to do great things. Finally frustrated, Mr. Carlson tells Johnny that even if it’s not God talking to him, how could it be bad when someone tells you that they love you? Johnny still hems and haws over believing it’s God and questions how can he know that God is talking to him? How can he know it’s really God? Mr. Carlson finally replies, “Listen buster, if God has something he wanted to say, you'd hear it!”
Well, I think he got it right folks. I really think he did..
Personally, I spend a lot of time praying to God for answers. I have so many questions and so few answers. I always pray for big, bright, flashing neon signs so that if God is speaking to me, I’ll know that it’s really Him doing the talking. But I frequently lose sight of the fact that if God has something to say to me, then I’d hear it. I’d know it was God talking to me without having to wonder and question and ponder.
I am really hoping God has something He wants to say to me. And I hope I’ve cleared my head enough to hear it.
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