God with

There they are in great terror,

for God is with the generation of the righteous.

Psalm 14:5

The “they” of this statement are those who insist there is no God to Whom they are accountable. God calls those who declare such things “fools”. They are shown in Psalm 14 to be:

• Corrupt
• Doing what God hates
• Incapable of doing good (Psalm 14:1)
• Turned aside (Psalm 14:3)
• Ignorant
• People consumers
• Prayerless (Psalm 14:4)

But God ultimately wins out over their sinful hatred of Him and His people. They can deny God all they want. They won’t be able to do so in the end. They will find too late that the deception of their refusal to believe will find them in final terror. And the righteous that they hope to consume will be kept by God, Who is always with His people. Denying God is a losing lifestyle.

We live in a time where the deception of godlessness is a growing spiritual cancer. People are being lied to by a popular humanism that denies God. Even the Christian church is seeing this thinking infiltrate her. In the past five years I have seen popular evangelical figures go completely apostate, abandoning all faith in God, and then repackage themselves with nearly evangelical fervor as humanists. And that is so sad. It puts them in the category of the worst of false teachers who deny the God Who saves and makes them godless fools described in Psalm 14. And it compels me to proclaim the living truth found in Jesus even more. False teaching abounds. But Jesus is the Way… the Truth… the Life!

I KNOW the God Who looks down from heaven on us (Psalm 14:2). And I know how He rewards those who will only look back up to Him and seek Him. I have seen God work through the steady, daily impact of reading His Word, praying, repenting of my sin, and seeking to follow Jesus. And in that following I am absolutely convinced I have experienced God at work in my lifetime. Yes, it requires faith in the unseen. But God being unseen is NOT the same as God being unknown! By trusting Christ and believing the gospel I know God! It is powerful. It is joyful. It is rewarding. It is real!