On this date in 1876, Alexander Graham Bell placed the first phone call. He called his assistant, Thomas Watson, who was in another room in the same house. His message: “Mr. Watson, come here. I want to see you.”
The telephone has come a long way in the last 150 years. Sadly, I’m old enough to remember the party line, which was phased out in the 1970s. My first cell phone doubled as a brick. A lot has changed.
My current cell number has ten digits. Until a few decades ago, we only dialed seven-digit numbers. And there was a time when every person’s landline consisted of just four digits.
Calling one another has become more complicated than ever. But at least we no longer have to make “long-distance” calls. Except for one. And the good news is that He has called ID, but he still picks up every time.
Recovery Step: “The Lord is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth” (Psalm 145:18). Start each day with a call to the only one who always picks up. And where you’ll never get a busy signal.
