I used to sing an old gospel song named ‘Turn Your Radio On,’ written by Albert Brumley in 1938.
Turn your radio on and listen to the music in the air
Turn your radio on, heaven’s glories share
Turn your lights down low, and listen to the Master’s radio
Get in touch with God, turn your radio on.
The song was written at a time when radios were new to general public, especially those in rural areas. Radio broadcasts were played by stations with call letters and numbers on a dial and to pick up the broadcast you had to have your radio turned on and tuned in to the number on the dial.
I remember particularly Chicago station WLS which was 890 on the dial which I listened to late at night on a little battery-operated transistor radio. It could only be picked up in our area late at night after all the closer stations had quit broadcasting. They played the latest and greatest songs. In the 60s when I was a teen, they had a late-night music broadcast with the Top 40s, playing all the 60s hits, like the Beatles’ songs.
We could tune in to WLS all day long, but would usually only get a few sounds, maybe a little bit of a song, but by 10 p.m. it was mostly loud and clear. Of course the quality of our radio limited the quality of our reception and there was interference of every kind in the air—bad weather, other stations broadcasting, brick walls.
Father God is broadcasting loud and clear all the time. He never stops sending out the signal to us, but we can’t hear or understand his program content because of interference.
God is saying, “You will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart.” Jeremiah 29:13 NKJV.
Seeking God’s will is hard work. Don’t let anyone tell you that it’s easy, because it’s not. You have to search for Him with all your heart.
Lavon Hightower Lewis