“Call, don’t fall.”
The Call Button.
It’s a standard and necessary piece of equipment in any hospital.
A patient, however weak, impaired, and unsteady, can press a call button to get assistance, like when they need help in reaching the bathroom, or when there is any pain or discomfort. It’s understood that, by pressing this button, a distress signal is sent out.
It is a cry for help.
“Seek the LORD while he may be found; call on him while he is near.”
Isaiah 55:6
We cannot just call someone or something, without knowing about their existence and presence first.
Before the sound of the call, we need to seek the Source of it.
Have knowledge. Be aware.
And yes, spiritually speaking, have faith.
Now is the time to seek AND to call.
“…‘Wake up, sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.’ Be very careful, then, how you live—not as unwise but as wise, making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil.
Ephesians 5:14-16
We only need to watch the news, on inhabit our increasingly more challenging lives to see that we are encountering dark times.
We need to hit the call button.
What happens if we don’t?
My mother resided in a care facility for the last few years of her life.
She was wheelchair-bound and needed assistance for everything: trips to the bathroom, help with dressing herself, assistance to move her from her hospital bed to her wheelchair or recliner.
Like most people who are dependent in this situation, my mother did not want to admit her reality.
At first, she insisted she could do things by herself.
She overestimated her ability.
She would try to move, without pressing the call button.
And she had more than one fall doing so.
Again…
“Call, don’t fall.”
Because of her refusal to use that call button, she was hurt.
And it didn’t need to happen.
Likewise, spiritually, when we refuse to “call on our Savior,” we, at bare minimum, get unnecessarily hurt.
It didn’t have to happen like that.
And, at worst, our eternal souls are lost.
“Whoever acknowledges me before others, I will also acknowledge before my Father in heaven. But everyone who denies me here on earth, I will also deny before my Father in heaven.”
Matthew 10:32-33
How many of us stubbornly refuse to acknowledge or use the call button of our Savior?
How many of us refuse “to call,” and therefore, “fall?”
How many of us are unaware, or refuse to believe that calling on Him will change, not just our eternal standing, but our lives here for the better?
““This is what the LORD says, he who made the earth, the LORD who formed it and established it—the LORD is his name: Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.’”
Jeremiah 33:2-3
“…I will never blot out the name of that person from the book of life but will acknowledge that name before my Father and his angels.”
Revelation 3:5
The Call Button Does Not Discriminate.
“…‘I now realize how true it is that The Most High does not show favoritism.’”
Acts 10:34
There is a reason that call buttons are located within every hospital and care facility. They are necessary and work for anyone who presses the button.
I don’t think there’s a patient who looks at the equipment, thinking, “Well, that probably will work for someone else, but not for me.”
No.
The person in need of help sees it as that source of help.
They don’t question. They just press.
How much more concerning our Savior?
“For there is no difference between Jew and Gentile—the same Lord is Lord of all and richly blesses all who call on him, for, ‘Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.’”
Romans 10:12-13
He paid the price for each of our distress calls. He knows and hears them all.
But we need to press the button.
What’s stopping us?
In it inconvenient for us?
Do we want to sin a bit more before we “get right” with Him?
Do we believe we can do it on our own?
Do we reject the call button because we don’t believe it’s real?
“…In the time of my favor I heard you, and in the day of salvation I helped you.’ I tell you, now is the time of The Most High’s favor, now is the day of salvation.”
2 Corinthians 6:2
Our Savior, Our Messiah, is real. He didn’t just die for us “once upon a time.”
He lives, forever conquering death and sin.
He lives for us right now.
And He loves us right now.
That was the entire point of His Existence, His Life, His Atoning Death.
He loves us.
He loves you. As is. Right now.
And He knows you need to press the call button.
Let’s press then, and pray this together…
Abba Father,
We come to You, In the Name of Your Son, Yahshua.
We call on His Name, believing, by faith, and by Your Eternal, unfailing Word, that we are saved.
Forgive us for our many sins, including any rejection of You, and the Sacrifice of Your Son. He paid the price for us.
We accept Him as Lord, Savior, and Reigning Authority in our lives.
Thank you for responding to our call. Help us to live for Him each day, calling Him into everything concerning our lives.
We receive this Gift from You, now, in Yahshua’s Name,
Amen.
Copyright © 2025 by Sheryle Cruse
