Can He Do More?

Psalms 78:17-21 KJV

And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness.

And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.

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 streams overflowed; can he give bread also? can he provide flesh for his people?

Therefore the LORD heard this, and was wroth: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel;

Notice that Israel had not questioned what God had done:

• He had given them water from the rock
• He had given them bread from heaven

Their sin was not in attributing these to some other factor. Their sin was in questioning whether God could do more.

This is the sin of America. We attribute our founding to pilgrims and others of faith. We are quick to thank God for His hand of goodness to us in the past. We boldly ask God for His blessing and stamp His name on our buildings and pieces of money. On a personal level we will attribute to God those events of good that have happened in our lives.

But we also betray our lack of faith in doubting what God can do in our future. As we look ahead into what appears to be a wilderness, we see difficult times:

• Fewer people who express faith
• Economic trials and hardships
• A growing lack of popularity in the world
• The rise of and acceptance of none Christian religions

And we seem prone, even among professing Christians, to chose a course of pragmatism and practicality rather than one of faith and dependence upon the a Word of God. We may not question what God has done but we certainly wonder what God will do.

The sin of Israel was challenging whether God would continue to answer prayer. Let's not let that be our sin too.