Genesis
1:1 (NIV)
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
"I
don't want to go to Church it is so boring! Doesn't believing in God make life
dull?" So go the complaints against the faith we profess.
How shall
we fair when we are confronted with such statements? Do we just draw into our
religious shells and hope for the best, or do we seriously challenge such
statements?
I am for
challenging such statements directly from the Scriptures we read. Let's
consider just who it is we are worshipping? The God that we worship is the one
true creator of all that is. He is the one who made the butterflies, the swift
eagle in the sky, the mighty lion who prowls through the jingle. He is the one
who created our bodies with nerve endings to feel all sorts of pleasure and
pain. He could have made our tongue without taste buds but he made them with
the ability to taste and savor all sorts of foods and enjoy the pleasure such
foods bring to our taste and smell.
He
designed the rainbow to be something of beauty to look at after the rain. He
made little boys to throw rockets into swimming pools and shout with great joy
"Rocket!" He made all of this for us to richly enjoy. The pleasure of
enjoying time spent over a good cup of coffee with a good friend, the thrill of
diving off a five meter platform into a pool of water, the thrill of reuniting
with a friend you have not seen in several years. All of this he made for our
enjoyment.
Why did he
do this? Some deny that this world was made by God at all, but to do that they
have to accept the premise that God exists in order to deny his existence. This
is a thought I will expand on at a later time, suffice it to say that in order
to say you do not believe in God you have to posit his existence to say
anything of meaning in the first place.
In order
to state your case and assume your statement that denies the existence of God
you have to believe that there is some objective reality outside that
determines what words mean and if they have any meaning at all and why it even
matters. If God does not exist then nothing matters and there is no meaning, so
a true atheist cannot ever say anything of importance for the ultimate reality
that defines everything does not exist.
Aren't you
glad you belong to God who gives meaning to all of life?
More to
come tomorrow, for now let us rejoice in the our Creator God and trust him in
these days.
Reveling
in his goodness that leads me to repentance,
Pastor Phil