How Much do we Trust God?

By Rex Spears, (S.F. Bay Area)

It is an interesting question that we should apply in many different situations.  When we are sick and get anointed we are asking God to heal us.  Sometimes we have a job crisis.  Maybe we are in danger of losing a job and we pray and ask God for his help.  But there is another area we need to meditate on.

Do we trust God to give us the messages on the Sabbath that we need?  Need not necessarily want.  Let us face the facts.  Some people are just better speakers than others.  All speakers have bad days.  But for every sermon do we pray and really expect that God will inspire the messages we need (Romans 10:17)?  Maybe God is testing us to see just how much we really love his word or are we like the world – looking for entertainment?  One of the problems Beyond Today faces is that the average attention span of a viewer is 18-minutes while the program is 30-minutes (Acts 28:27).  When I first came into the church way back in the last millennium an evangelist named Gerald Waterhouse use to come through on tours.  There we were on a week night with 2 small kids listening enthralled for 2 – 3 hours.  Even then we were left wanting more.

Today Satan has so manipulated us that we can – if not very careful – completely miss God’s inspired message for that day.  This is true not only for Sabbath but also true for the Holy Days.  Some people miss services at the Feast of Tabernacles because they want to go and do something fun.  After all God only commands us to go on the first and last day.  Right?  Then why did God go to all the trouble to give us 7-days of messages and fellowship?  Maybe there are points given on one of the other 5-days or perish the thought in the middle of a boring sermon that God wants us to dig out to show that we understand just how sobering and dangerous the times we live in are (1 Peter 5:6-8).

It is easy to see the danger in the hurricane now hitting the East Coast, but we need to recognize the dangers we face every day in Satan’s world.  God inspires the messages that we hear but it is up to us as to what we do with that information.