"Doubt Him, If You Dare"

"But Thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in Thee." (Psalms 55:23) Obviously, there is something else to betrayal besides doubt or mistrust; maybe it could be loyalty or commitment, if those are the traits of a faithful servant to his Master; after all, we all serve somebody. I think it is really amazing that God gives us the challenge in the first place, because I doubt anyone else would be up for it; most of the cults that I am familiar with, they will kick you out, or worse, if you doubt what they teach; but God, He expects us to check things out for ourselves, and He has provided the source of the proof so that we can. Having said that, I need to go back to something I said about trust being the most important power that we have when it comes to being loyal to God; because, truth be told, trust is pretty much the only power that we have at all to begin with; any other power, is given to us by God, whether that be love, or joy, or even faith and hope; trust is the only thing that just requires us to surrender to His will, and to just believe; everything else He provides to us after we trust in Him. Listening to Pastor Jon yesterday, he was teaching of the "Sabbath Years", and how God had instructed His children about what they were to do with the land that He had given them, that they were to farm and grow upon it for six years, and on the seventh year, let it rest. But they did not listen to God's instruction, because they feared that they seventh year would yield two years of famine; yet God had clearly told them, that if they practiced what He said, then the sixth year would yield enough for three years (Leviticus 25:20-22). Unfortunately, they did not trust God, or listen to His instructions; therefore, God caused them to be held captive in Babylon for payment of all the years that they skipped over. It's little things like that, not just the big and obvious things, but little things, like not trusting God at His word because you just can't see how it is possible, or how much you look at what you will suffer if it does not work... "But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false prophets among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of. And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgement now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not." (2 Peter 2:1-3)