How Wise Is That?
"The
fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.
They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that
doeth good." --Ps. 14:1
In
order to say there is no God, man must war against his own consciousness, his
own reason, and his own moral sense.
That's why it is foolish. A man
may be very wise and learned in the things of this world and may attain great
power, prestige, and wealth, but because his heart is alienated from the God
who made him, he lives as one bereft of his senses.
But if
it is foolish to say there is no God, then it must be equally foolish not to
worship Him. If men profess to know
God, but "in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and
unto every good work reprobate," how wise is that? (Titus 1:16). The Holy Spirit warns that a fiery judgment awaits those who "know
not God, and they obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ; who shall be punished
with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory
of his power...." (2 Thess. 1:8,9)
To be
without Christ is to be without God, according to Scripture. Ephesus was the home of the great temple of
Diana, a great holy place of the ancient world. Idolaters came from all over the world to worship at this great
shrine. Yet the Holy Spirit says they
were "without Christ...having no hope, and without God in the
world." Those who reject Christ
are without God, for in Christ dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily
(Col. 2:9). There is no other way to
God but by Jesus Christ (John 14:6).
This
is the reason that Christ would say that the man who "heareth these saying
of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his
house upon a rock." But those who
heard and did them not, "shall be likened unto a foolish man which built
his house on the sand...." (Matt.
7:24-27)
If it
is foolish to deny, then it is doubly foolish not to worship.
