At Thy Word

Intro: In these times in which we live, I am disturbed by the way that we treat the all mighty God. We say that we love him, and we say that we can’t live without him, he’s my all and all, and we say for God I’ll live and for God I’ll die but on an everyday basic we can find everything else more important than God.

We say that we trust him as our leader and our guide, but we can’t even trust him enough to be honest with our tithes and offerings. (Oh yeah it’s going to be a little rough this morning). He tells us give and it shall be given back to you, good measure pressed down, shaken together and running over will men give into your bosom. But we put more trust in our savings and loans, then we do the word, we put more trust in the friends than we do in trusting his word, we have more trust in our job than we do in the word of God. And I know that some of you are sitting there saying nall pastor you just don’t know me. I love God more than you can ever know, and as a matter of fact you really don’t even know me that well so how can you judge me like that. You might be right.

So then for argument sake, I don’t know you that well so let’s let you judge yourself. (Pull out your spiritual evaluation sheet and pen and let’s take this spiritual poll with me). First of all, when I say tithe, I’m not just talking about money, but we are suppose to give 10% of our time, 10% of our talents, and 10% tithe. Now there are 168 hours in a week and 16.8 of those hours belong to God, so that averages out to about 2.4 hours a day.

Let’s compared to your manmade job to your Godly job. Your man- made job consist of 40 hours a week and some folks do even more. We spend a norm of 8 hours a day on sleeping, that 56 hour some people not all but some people spend about 28 hours a week on the computer, others spend on an average of 1 hour and 30 minutes in driving, the T.V takes

about 12 hours a week, and let’s split the telephones. On our land phone we and unlimited amount of time so I’m not going to even count those minutes. But the average cell phone has about fifteen hundred minutes on them and we burn them up like nothing. So that means that we spend an average 350 minutes a week on the phone which equals up too 2450 plus hours and then we spend about 2 hours in church on Sunday’s and then complaint if the preacher goes to long, and that’s not including bible studies because many don’t go. And in this time, I’m not including, getting your hair cut, getting your hair done, getting your nails and your toes together, shopping, going to the hospital, the movies, the restaurant’s, your pillow talk time and on and on. So, in your poll how many hours do you spend a week with God. Do you at least spend fifteen hours a week communicating with the one who really birth you, and gave you eternal life? Do you spend at least 7 hrs. with God the one that you claim that you are going to spend eternal life with. And let me throw this in since you gave me a little time. I noticed that some of us has roll over minutes just in case that we need them, but how many of you have extra roll over prayer just in case you need them, and it’s a shame that it seems like God has to text message some of us just to get our attention. So, I’m here to tell you to hear the word of the Lord because the bible says that no man knows the day nor the hour when the son of man shall return.

We say that we are going to take the Lord at his Word, but we leave God hanging as though God don’t exist or as though he doesn’t know what he is talking about. But our God is a deliver, he a heart fixer, and a mind regulator. And nothing is too hard for God. But, we shut down when it comes to God, we can function in any other fashion except God. And there is one thing that I have learned about God and that is if he brings you to a thing then he will bring you through a thing.

The Word of God has such a sufficient meaning to it. The Word is our guider, the Word is our light, and the Word is our life. It gives us direction, it gives us information, it gives us notification, motivation, stimulation. The Word gives us Sanctification, aspiration, and inspiration. As a matter of fact, the Word is even our food. Because in Matthew 4:4 Jesus says that man shall not live by bread only but by every Word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.