GOD IS NOT DEAD!
Recently I received a letter saying my car had a manufacturing defect. Common vernacular calls it a 'recall.' I was told to contact the local dealership to have a specific part replaced. Now my car runs smoothly and I don't need to fear a breakdown.
When I read the recall letter, I did not immediately call Walmart, Barnes and Noble or the local blood bank. I called the auto dealership, the company that services my car. The manufacturer knew exactly what to do to correct the error because it was their product. They did it swiftly and well.
That's true in the commercial world. But what about in society? With all our overwhelming technology, even church people today automatically look everywhere but to God for help for whatever ails or troubles them. He's often last on the list rather than the One on whom they rely first. Society in general doesn't even see God on their radar! Do you wonder why that is when we were considered a Christian nation not too many years ago?
For years and years the devil has been chipping away at God's foremost position, that of the Creator. During the middle 1800s, Darwin introduced the 'scientific' notion of 'natural selection' or 'survival of the fittest' that fostered the much larger lie of evolution. Essentially, Darwin conjured up the story and illogical proofs of man's evolution from ape to homo-sapien. By the mid-1900s America had largely swallowed the theory of evolution hook, line and sinker and taught school children as fact that it is how man originated!
Evolution ignores God and does not consider His creative genius when explaining how our world came into being. The lie called evolution is taught as the truth; creation by God was dethroned by 'science.'
Romans 1:18-23 tells us the truth about the creation from God's perspective:
"For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them. For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen..so that they are without excuse. For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools., and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures."
Toward the end of the 1800s, a German philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche, proposed that "God is dead." He did not mean our great God was extinct, but rather that by relinquishing its belief in God, society would open the way for human creative abilities to fully develop.
In other words, as humankind threw off the constraints placed on us by God and His Word, people would be free to explore and try behaviors and avenues of thinking that currently were taboo. God was too overbearing, too inconvenient, too difficult.
As predicted by Nietzsche, the evolution of society to believing evolution was a slow, insidious process that gained ground within our culture until many Americans spouted freedom from God as the real deal. It set her up, though, to next swallow much larger pills. Why did God's overthrow matter, anyway? Why was evolution such a watershed?
As long as man recognized God to be his Creator, it charged him with responsibility and accountability to his Master Creator. Once that truth of our origin shifted to an ambiguous, unprovable theory of evolution that sounded overwhelming and awesome, God was out of the picture and it was easy to destroy His rules and constraints inherent in our culture.
We saw a huge wave of that war against God beginning the in 60s with the overthrow of modesty and decency during the sexual revolution. To 'complement' this shameless dissipation, abortion became the rampant form of birth control. Get rid of the evidence and inconvenience.
Prayer and Bible reading in schools were forbidden by law. Display of the Ten Commandments was ruled unlawful in public places, so monuments and murals featuring them were taken down or defaced. Especially, youth sought supernatural experience by experimenting with drugs, not prayer.
The whole LGBTQ agenda took hold until finally the Supreme Court decided that marriage, an institution dating from the Garden of Eden and ordained by God, was no longer just between a biological man and a biological woman. Any combination is approved! Transgenderism became the core of Family Life Education classes in public schools though God created man male and female. Period. Essentially, what was always considered taboo and bad has become good. Reverse that and what was always considered good, like God, for instance, is now bad and the Bible is hate speech!
All this has come about because persons in authority, whether in government, education, commerce or science, have forgotten that the producer of a culture is the only One who can service and fix it. Instead, they look to man himself, one of God's broken products, as the answer or the finder of the answer without any intervention by the Manufacturer.
My car hums now. I drive it comfortably and without fear of being stranded somewhere in traffic.
Not so for our society! We see more and more breakdowns of its parts until we'll soon be left with the hulk of what was once a thriving culture. All the while God looks on with His offer of help woefully ignored or absolutely rejected!
How foolish men become without God's acknowlegement. He's offering road service 24/7 to anyone who will call Him! Take Him up on the offer. He will be your salvation!