Message summary: Are you faithfully reading and heeding God's instruction manual?

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"Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, but in these last days He has spoken to us by His Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also He created the world" (Hebrews 1:1,2).

Yesterday I received a call from an unknown number. My phone allows me, prior to answering, to click on "what is the nature of your call?" The screen showed a message to the effect: "I am following-up on your inquiry about solar panels". Well, the problem is I never made such an inquiry. As is increasingly the case I was being lied to.

This is not uncommon and many of you have similar encounters. Persistent demands for our attention to matters like this can diminish our sensitivity to important messages.

Consider the degree in which the human race has ignored and continues to ignore the most important message of all time from the instruction manual for life inspired by our Creator. Of course it’s the Holy Bible I am speaking of. It is widely available and applicable to every generation since the beginning of time.

If you are reading our message you almost certainly have access to it, so do all those around you. Most of you have a printed version, probably many different versions. But in our age the entire Bible is also online. Yet for the most part the Bible’s instructions are ignored and considered irrelevant by “enlightened” modern man. And increasingly these timeless decrees are mocked by many.

Today’s message is prepared in our home in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA at my comfortable desk on a beautiful summer morning. We are greatly blessed!  When I am done this message will be transmitted to your computer using modern technology and will reach you in a matter of seconds after I submit it regardless of where you live in this world. That’s astounding isn’t it, especially when overseas correspondence formerly took at least a month, possibly months and some letters arrived a year later (I'm recalling the years before internet, of course.)

The New Testament letters were written almost 2,000 years ago, many from harsh conditions. Consider the effort made to communicate God’s truth. It surely took a lot of time for the message to be delivered before the letter was read aloud after the people assembled in church.

My desire today is like Paul’s and many, many others who have gone on before me and like those who presently serve as ministers of God.  I want to share a perspective from God’s instruction manual, the Bible. What an extremely rich blessing that He came down to our level since we couldn't reach up to His.

Primarily and fundamentally we have His Son and the written Word of God. “In the past God spoke to our forefathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways, but in these last days He has spoken to us by His Son, whom He appointed Heir of all things, and through whom He made the universe”.

Paul wrote to Timothy and through the Scripture He addresses each one of us: “You, however, continue in the things you have learned and become convinced of, knowing from whom you have learned them, and that from childhood you have known the sacred writings which are able to give you the wisdom that leads to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness; so that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work” (2 Timothy 3:14-17).

God has clearly revealed His will and His way.  We have an absolutely adequate instruction manual that is so often left under-utilized or unread, even by believers.  And so many mock and ridicule His Word. Today in all the hustle and bustle of life consider and rejoice that the Almighty Maker of heaven and earth has spoken and made known His will to the human race.  Are you faithfully reading and heeding His instruction manual?

Be encouraged today, Hebrews 3:13.

Stephen & Brooksyne Weber