Pre-Trumpets Thought
God sets His people apart by His truth. His word is truth and not at all hard to understand for a willing mind.
He puts His truth forward in a very simple and straightforward manner. “You shall not have in your bag differing weights, a heavy and a light. You shall not have in your house differing measures, a large and a small. You shall have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure, that your days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD your God is giving you” (Deuteronomy 25:13–15). He has taken something so simple and every day common and made it profound. Virtually everyone is impacted by whether or not just weights and measures are implicitly practiced. Someone will unjustly profit while someone else suffers loss. It may only be a little at a time, but God is fully aware. “For all who do such things, all who behave unrighteously, are an abomination to the LORD your God” (Deuteronomy 25:16). Cheating someone else only a little has no place with God. He hates it.
There is a simple answer as to why God hates it. “Shall I count pure those with the wicked scales, and with the bag of deceitful weights? For her rich men are full of violence, her inhabitants have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth” (Micah 6:11–12). Such actions are borne of lies and deceit. In essence, God is not just talking about weights and measures. He’s talking about anything that a man might do through lies and deceit. The obvious connection here is that lies and deceit are of our adversary, who deceives the whole world. Such things have no place with God!
Christ, here, states a living principle that applies to all that we do, but it’s put in the context of unrighteous money. “He who is faithful in what is least is faithful also in much; and he who is unjust in what is least is unjust also in much. Therefore, if you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?” (Luke 16:10–11). Being faithful in the least amounts of money really connects with our thinking, because nobody wants to be cheated. God draws us close with this simple truth. His spirit of truth, however, would lead us to go deeper yet. Are we faithful with the tiniest fragments of thought that we allow our minds to dwell on? Do we work to bring into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ? It is to these that He will commit the true riches.
The Feast of Trumpets urgently reminds us of Christ’s imminent return. Now is the time to consider this simple and emphatic truth. “He who is unjust, let him be unjust still; he who is filthy, let him be filthy still; he who is righteous, let him be righteous still; he who is holy, let him be holy still. And behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me, to give to everyone according to his work” (Revelation 22:11–12). He who is faithful in little will be rewarded with much.
Marshall Stiver
