The Desperation of a Godless Existence

The aspect of fear lies beneath every act of the Godless human. No amount of sanity can conquer the desperation acquired by a life in contradiction to one’s creator.
To live in the absence of faith is to accumulate to one’s person responsibility for all existence…everything…or the opposite…nothing…no accountability at all…in a fearsome freefall of destiny defined only by one’s own abandonment of hope. Life without God is a self-defined box in which all humanity loses its grounding. The awkward and ludicrous attempt to eliminate the Almighty by declaring that there is no such a One…is to begin a baseless search for something better, someone better, something that matters at all. Eradicating God is as futile as defining time by one’s own attempt to count one’s own heartbeats. God’s time refuses the limits of our own capacities to measure or to quantify. God’s creation has constantly confounded us in every aspect of its exploration and while learning and discovery are fruitful endeavors and to be commended, the absurdity of suggesting that God is lost in the picture is an act of denial beyond measure.
God allows us all the opportunities necessary to recognize His work. Only self,
elevated to the place of God, allows the mind to limit the existence of everything to only what that person allows to be. I did not birth the existence of my wife, or my neighbor, or my friends. I did not birth God and yet many respond to the suggestion that God brings meaning and truth to bear upon life with the retort that they simply don’t give God a place in their lives. Therefore because they refuse to “think it” God isn’t any more. A Godless life demands fear as its motivator for everything. If God is not with us, or for us, or in us, then we are alone to the whims of everything else we have or must assume control of. We must control our experiences…our ideas…our actions…in regard to all living existence. We are controllers of the greater world around us…and everything literally revolves around our mental and physical manipulations of the universe. We are totally in control and therefore totally in charge and we face that world with fear because nothing else but insanity will allow us to do anything else.
Soldiers in war are taught to overcome their fear by training to respond to the stimulus of enemies presence without thinking. Those who disconnect themselves from
living in relationship to God require that they train themselves to respond as though God is their enemy. Thus, we can quickly account for those who see the worship of God as a threat to their worldview or a threat to their lifestyle decisions or a threat to their decision to be in charge of themselves in ways that they take total responsibility for. The fact of God will not be tolerated if that God requires justice, truth, or accountability. The nature of life that allows for God must also allow for His justice, His righteousness, His truthfulness, His presence…and some people just won’t stand for it. So they in their fear
respond as fearful people do…they run…or they fight. They run away from the idea of
considering God working in their midst…and because God does do so much, they must attack those whose existence their worldview denies. The absurdity lies in the constant failure of all those who deny God’s place in their lives to truly live in rejection of their own God-sustained, God-filled world. It’s like being born with eyes and insisting that you prefer to live with your eyes closed. Keeping your eyes closed doesn’t turn off the existence of what eyes could see if they would simply be open. In the same way we are invited by God to share the experiences of His creation and world.
Around the world, fear drives the responses of those who live apart from God.
Only with God, only with a life open to God’s leading and God’s guiding will there be an appropriate fearfulness that stands in awe and wonder to worship and seek God’s way, only to discover in Him an invitation to fear not. In His presence the fear of helplessness
and hopelessness is removed. In his presence, necessities are recognized by their appropriate place in the world…valuable gifts of God for our blessing, not our harm. Peace, be still…and know God is with us. Ready or not…