Presenting ...
... a weekly letter of encouragement.
March 28, 1994
Good Morning!
MOST PEOPLE WHO HAVE A PROBLEM WITH GOD handle Him in one of
two ways:
(1) They pretend He does not exist:
Which solves the problem of accountability. If He doesn't exist,
we are free to live our lives as we please. There remains however
the thorny problem of explaining how we all got here? The trick
is to concoct a fairy tail to the affect that everything around
us just "happened." "Chance." TALK ABOUT
LIVING BY FAITH!
Currently evolutionists are telling us it all started with amino
acids. But where did they come from? Tough to
explain away the gnarly issue of "First Cause."
Perhaps this is why God states "The FOOL has
said in his heart, 'There is no God'"
(Psalm 14:1).
(2) They re-invent Him:
Let's face it, His demand on us for all of our heart,
soul, mind and strength is pretty steep,
given the fact that we'd rather play than carry a cross.
So we cope by:
Reducing God to a manageable size:
"Knowing God, they refused to honor Him as God...hence
all their thinking ended in futility, and their misguided minds
are plunged into darkness. They boast of their wisdom, but they
have made fools of themselves...because they have bartered
away the true God for a false one." (Romans 1:21,22,
25 - NEB)
Collecting around us religious leaders who tell us what we
want to hear about God:
"For the time will come when they will not endure sound
doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will
accumulate for themselves teachers according to their own desires."
(II Timothy 4:2)
Romans 11:22 speaks about the kindness and severity
of God. To those who acknowledge Him for who He is: Kindness.
To the rest: Severity. As always, the choice is ours.
Have a great week!
Dwight Hill
© Copyright 1996 Dwight Hill. Unlimited permission to copy or use is hereby granted subject to inclusion of this copyright notice.
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