The DirecTV Satellite

ON TOP of my house, I have a DirecTV satellite dish. This DirecTV satellite dish links me to a satellite orbiting the Earth in outer space. That satellite in space sends a signal to my dish and to the dishes of anyone who has DirecTV. Now, you can’t see the satellite, but it does send a signal to the receiver connected to my house.

When my receiver, which is attached to my house, picks up the signal from the satellite that I can’t see circling the Earth, I get a picture on my television. Before I got satellite TV, I had basic television that allowed me to get about six channels.

That was the extent of my reception. I had an antenna attached to my roof that helped me to get those stations. But when I got DirecTV, something graphically changed in my TV viewing.

Now I could pick up stuff I never would have seen before. Now I can get stations like USA, ESPN, CNN, and TNT. I was able to get channels I never knew existed because now I was connected to something much higher. Before I was connected to a roof antenna, but now I am connected to “outer space.”

When we come to Jesus Christ, God screws a satellite receiver into our souls. He quickens our spirits so that we can pick up the Trinitarian network. Because He hooks up a new receiver, we can pick up a new signal not available to us apart from Him. The Holy Spirit takes the dimmer switch and turns on the light so that we can see the spiritual nature of a thing, not merely the thing itself.