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By Joe Palmer
Pastor, Fellowship Baptist Church
Last time, I said that we were built to assume that a great good God exists. To remove Him from our minds as the primary premise for life is to abandon any reason for living and any hope for the future. To do so also disconnects us from any reason to love or to live in an honorably good way. The famous French philosopher Jean Paul Sartre wrote: “The existentialist, on the contrary, finds it extremely embarrassing that God does not exist, for there disappears with Him all possibility of finding values in an intelligible heaven. There can no longer be any good a priori, since there is no infinite and perfect consciousness to think it. … Everything is indeed permitted if God does not exist, and man is in consequence forlorn, for he cannot find anything to depend upon either within or outside himself. … Thus we have neither behind us, nor before us in a luminous realm of values, any means of justification or excuse. We are left alone, without excuse. That is what I mean when I say that man is condemned to be free.”
Many of us ignore God so that we can be free to live as we please. There is a high price to pay for refusing to accept the obvious. In this life the consequences are loneliness, fear, guilt, confusion, and the monotony of meaninglessness. There is no real freedom apart from God.
There is a wonderfully joyful freedom in a true relationship with God through Jesus Christ.
If you would like to talk with me (Pastor Joe Palmer of Fellowship Baptist) about it,
e-mail me at joeandsuzypal@yahoo.com.
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