Did he not believe that the Lord would show up? Or did he simply not want to hear what the Lord had to say?
I have to ask, what would happen if the Lord asked the same of us? Would we ask Him for a sign? Would we even hear Him at all?
The truth that you may or may not believe is that God still speaks. This is a truth that I questioned, and that the Lord answered in South Africa. I had heard from other people that it was true, that one could hear from the voice of God, but I had never experienced anything other than a feeling of the Lord's presence.
On a Saturday morning at Logos Christian Church, I sat with my head in my hands, wondering if I were doing the right thing by moving to Boulder, if God would provide for me there, if I were going to 'make it.' I was sitting on a curb of the parking lot, crying out to the Lord, when a woman walked past. She started talking to me in Afrikaans, so I waited about ten seconds then told her I didn't understand what she was saying, thinking she was telling me I had to move, or asking what the crazy white girl was doing sitting in the parking lot.
Without skipping a beat, this is what she said to me:
"You will pass, sister, you will pass. Don't worry! All the questions you have, the Lord will give you the answers. Is this the first time someone's told you this? Don't worry!" Then she walked away.
Maybe just a coincidence? Maybe she was just crazy?
The specificity of her words to me cause me to believe her words were from the Lord. And here I am now, in Boulder, slowly but surely making it.
God still speaks. Why would He not speak to His children?
We just need the ears to listen.
