heart ruin

“Trust based on evidence” is a good definition of faith. When an atheist claims there is no God, the belief is not based on a solid body of evidence. There is so much evidence to the contrary that you can say the atheist has more “blind faith” than faith.

Romans 1:20 (NLT)
From the time the world was created, people have seen the earth and sky and all that God made. They can clearly see his invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature. So they have no excuse whatsoever for not knowing God.

Today, we are able to see way more of “earth and sky and all that God made.” The evidence for design in the universe and the big bang evidence for space, time, energy and matter being created simultaneously, all lead to a logical conclusion that there is a god. This doesn’t specifically warrant this being the God of the Bible, but there is other evidence for that being the case. Let’s just consider a god in general.

Why does a small minority of people not trust there is a god? Why do so many more people act as if there is no god? The trouble is if God exists then he must somehow be in charge. If God is in charge then guess what? We’re not.

The path of ruin begins with the heart. Choices are made as if there is no God. These choices affect all the other parts of our lives. We wish to be in charge and if God exists we can’t be. So we begin to deceive ourselves in one of two ways. We either choose to believe there is no God, or we act as if there is no God. Either way we are lost. This is why the unhealthy behavior of atheists and people who identify as Christian looks very similar. One ignores the evidence of there being a God, and the other acts as if God doesn’t care.

If we keep choosing to ignore God we keep ignoring the blessings God has in store for us. When our hearts are turned in another direction we cannot be our best, true selves.