In our lifetimes, we have known many who have become disheartened by the rigorous demands of their religion. After years of toil and nothing to show for it, they have even abandoned the notion that there is a god or an unseen spiritual realm that dwarfs all that can be known by the five senses. To talk of god now, seems only foolishness to them.
The problem has been, to a great extent, religion. The world’s religions have generally involved the fascinating story of a now dead “prophet of god” who received “divine revelation,” and a commission to inform the world of what their supposed god wants of them. Their followers have become bewildered with the task of pleasing the make believe god their religion has espoused, and promoting the words of its now dead prophet. To talk of religion has become abhorrent to them.
To borrow an old cliché, many have “Thrown the baby out with the bathwater.” Because of their experience with the gods of this world, they reject the God of the Bible. But not believing in God does not made Him go away; He believes in you. Nor has our unbelief diminished His authority over His creation and love for His creatures. So why are the disheartened abandoning the God of creation? It is because, if they have approached Him at all, it was through a “man made” religion, but the God of the Bible, the only true God, insists on a relationship rather than a religion. “And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. (John 17:3)” Do you KNOW God? If so, it is only because you have come to Him by faith in His Son, Jesus, who gave Himself as payment for your sin. Jesus, who is God in the flesh, rose from the grave and lives forever to intercede for those who come to Him in faith. You don’t have to believe the words of a dead prophet, you can have a relationship with the living, Almighty God!
“But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. (Hebrews 11:6)”