“The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.” Psalms 14:1
I have an acquaintance at work that is a devout atheist. I was not aware of that until this man’s wife and son were killed in a tragic accident two years ago, and he too almost lost his life.
I went to the hospital a couple of days after the accident and was warned ahead of time that he did not believe in God. The visit was short. While walking that long corridor of the hospital, I thought within my self how very tragic, how very sad to go through such agonizing grief without God. How does one do that?
Fast forward a year. While talking to him one day we got into a discussion of belief in God. I was unprepared for the onslaught of bitterness, anger, mockery of God. I tried to answer his questions as fast as I could. The questions were flying at me in a fury that even today, I don’t understand.
When I left the conversation that day, his demeanor was one of confusion coupled with remorse at having gotten so angry with me. He did hurt me and as I drove home my tears fell as rain, not just for him, but for the feeling that I had failed to get God’s message across to him. When a person has no belief in God. Where do you begin?
A couple of days ago while speaking of preparing dishes for a potluck on Lord’s day, after morning worship. He said he wanted to bring the woman he lives with to the dinner, but that he couldn’t, for the “price was too high.” I told him, translated, that meant he would have to endure a sermon and without apology said, “Yes.” He did not want a sermon.
“Too high a price.” ….. but a decision that will bring on eternal consequences for unbelief. “And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.” Revelation 21:27
“Playing god by deciding there is no God is a self-deception that brings self-destruction.”
Leroy Brownlow
Eileen Light