IMPRACTICAL ATHEISM

I Was Just Thinking About – IMPRACTICAL ATHEISM.

It is sad to see the tremendous shift that has occurred within major religious groups in what is often references as The Church. Any group making such a claim must prove by its message proclaimed and its consistent application of God’s Word that it is a Biblical Church. The past generation has seen a continuation of a drift away from the church as a requirement. The forms, rituals, and adaptation of message to cultural trends have all contributed to this drift. Crowd size is often misconstrued as a mark of success and the tendency is to copy that which seems to have achieved resonance with a cross-section of the population. With this trend and tendency, there is also the entrance of independence and self-sufficiency. Within the sphere of impractical atheism, God has been relegated to a word or name representing the divine. God’s centrality in worship and lifestyle is no longer vital or sought.

Some cautionary words from Holy Scriptures indicate the inherent danger for those who no longer sense or desire the presence of the living God in their lives, church or culture. Psalm 14:1-3 states: The fool says in his heart: There is no God. They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds; there is none who does good. The LORD looks down from heaven on the children of man, to see if there are any who understand, who seek after God. They have all turned aside; together they have become corrupt; there is none who does good, not even one.”

Another cautionary word for the self-sufficient is James 4:13-17, “Come now, you who say: Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business, and make a profit. You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say: If the Lord is willing, we will live and do this or that. As it is, you boast in your proud intentions. All such boasting is evil. Therefore, whoever knows the right thing to do, yet fails to do it, is guilty of sin.”

There is a spiritual vacuum in the hearts of people. Ecclesiastes 3:9-15 gives us a glimpse of this vacuum. “God…has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man’s heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end…I perceived that whatever God does endures forever; nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it. God has done it, so that people fear before him. That which is, already has been; that which is to be, already has been; and God seeks what has been driven away.”

Atheism is neither practical or impractical. It allows one to believe that life can be lived in a vacuum independent of The Creator and without the reality of Jesus Christ as the Savior and Redeemer one so desperately needs. Each of us should worship God in the beauty of His holiness (Psalm 29:2, Psalm 96:9).

Prayerfully – consider these things with me.