Hear Him
Finding God in Christ Alone
“I don’t believe in God.” You’ve heard people say it. So have I.
But what does this even mean, “I
don’t believe in God”? If you think
about it, it can be taken in two different ways. Finding God in Christ Alone
One: You don’t believe that he even exists. That is, you don’t believe that he is out
there at all the way a grown child no longer believes in Santa Claus. Or two: You don’t believe in him; that is, you don’t believe that
he is reliable or trustworthy or ultimately good—the way a betrayed child no
longer believes in his dead-beat father.
Now, all sorts of people make this first claim. He isn’t real, they say. He’s a myth, they say. People made him up in order to enforce their repressive
standards of morality, they say.
It’s easier for one to say this, that he doesn’t believe
that God exists at all than to say that he is mad at God, or that God let him
down, or that he is afraid of God. Boy, what insecurity to confess to. Oh no.
You don’t hear folks talk that way quite so much. People guard themselves more than that. You’ll sound a lot more intellectual, after
all, if you just deny his existence altogether – like, hey, he’s thought about this; he’s broken the shackles of ignorance and
superstition; this guy’s deep. But
it is not deep to deny God; it is foolish.
Not only because of the consequences, but because of the obvious fact
that God most certainly does exist.
“The
fool says in his heart, ‘There is no God.’ They are corrupt, their deeds are
vile; there is no one who does good” (Psalm 14:1 & 53:1).
