"Unbelief"

"Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness? Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the steams overflowed; can he give bread also? can he provide flesh for his people?" (Psalms 78:19-20) Wouldn't you know, I heard Pastor Matt speaking about the same thing I spoke about yesterday morning, at around 3:15 yesterday afternoon. I don't know what is up with the CSN signal here, but apparently we don't have any "Tower Keepers" here in the Redding area. I know that Pastor Matt did that teaching at another time, but it must have been my time to hear it, because that's how the Holy Spirit seems to work; He puts something upon our hearts, then He brings someone else along to confirm His point. Looking at these verses, I am reminded about something we experience in our hearts when we do not fear God. When I say fear, I literally am talking about fear in the sense of being afraid to commit sin in His presence; and I am talking about trespass sin, the kind where you know what you are doing is bad, and you know in your heart that God's watching, yet you do it anyways. You know, we say that the difference between Christianity and other religions is that our faith is based upon relationship not religion, but there are times I think when we need to have a little religious motivation in our belief in God; at the very least, we need to have a little reverence in the relationship! Let me break it down for you. If you really believe that God can do all things, and if you really believe that God knows all things, sees all things, and is everywhere all at once; then why in the world would you blatantly sin? I mean, there has got to be something wrong with your relationship with God, if your not ashamed to do certain things right in front of Him; if, that is, you actually believe He is watching. The question is simple enough to understand. We know that God is capable of doing certain things with something, such as bringing water forth from rock; but can He make something from nothing? Really! "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth" is there at the beginning of our Bible for a reason, to show us how powerful our God actually is! If you cannot get past the fact that God can create something from nothing, then you're most likely not going to understand how He can make all things new, as in making you into a New Creature... "Because we understand our fearful responsibility to the Lord, we work hard to persuade others. God knows we are sincere, and I hope you know this, too. Are we commending ourselves to you again? No, we are giving you a reason to be proud of us, so you can answer those who brag about having a spectacular ministry rather than having a sincere heart. If it seems we are crazy, it is to bring glory to God. And if we are in our right minds, it is for your benefit. Either way, Christ's love controls us. Since we believe that Christ died for all, we also believe that we all have died to our old life. He died for everyone so that those who receive his new life will no longer live for themselves. Instead, they will live for Christ, who died and was raised for them. So we have stopped evaluating others from a human point of view. At one time we thought of Christ merely from a human point of view. How differently we know him now! This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!" (2 Corinthians 5:11-17) NLT