How To Get Rid of God

It seems today everybody wants to get rid of God. The government, the educational system, the media, you name it...they want God gone. Of course, this would be laughable if it weren't so sad, to think that God can be gotten rid of. It has certainly been tried before. Listen to these words of the Russian Communist Zinonieff, "We shall grapple with the Lord God. In due time we shall vanquish him from the highest heaven, and where he seeks refuge, we shall subdue him forever." How arrogant! I think history has proven for us who won that battle. And yet even though history has shown time and time again the futility of this endeavor there are those who would seek to conquer the God of the Bible.

Well, here are a couple of ways that the world tries to get rid of Him. First of all, they just ignore Him. St. Paul talks about this in Romans 1:28, "...they did not see fit to acknowledge God..." This is what the theory of evolution is all about. Darwin was a seminary drop-out who was angry at God and decided to try and take Him out of the mix. If we ignore Him maybe he'll go away. It's like a child hiding under a blanket when he's afraid or an ostrich sticking it's head in the sand.

Secondly, if they don't like who God is they try to change Him. Again, St. Paul speaks of this in verses 22 and 23 of Romans chapter 1, "Claiming to be wise they became fools (literally "morons" in the Greek) and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things." Now I'm not going to get into too many details here because you can look all of these up for yourself: humanism, polytheism, pantheism, etc. Just pick an "ism" and make God into whoever or whatever you want Him to be. The Egyptians used to worship a sacred onion. The Romans had 39 gods to choose from and the Greeks had 48. The Hindus have hundreds. My first police partner was a Hindu and he used to bring a different god to work everyday for protection.

The problem with ignoring God or trying to change Him is that He's still God in the end. As the old saying goes, just because the sun is blocked by the clouds doesn't mean that its not there and that it can't burn you. I don't know about you but some of my worst sunburns have come on overcast days because I forgot about the sun. Forgetting about the sun will get you burned! So will forgetting about God. Paul reminds us that there is a "penalty for their error." That penalty is death (see Romans 6:23).

Friends, I know that it is frustrating to have the world system demean your faith and your God, but remember, your God is bigger than anything the world can boast of and He is always victorious. They may try to forget about Him but He always has a witness for the world. Whether it be a band of nomads wandering through the wilderness with a Tabernacle showing forth His Glory, a tiny nation with a Temple showing forth His Glory, or, a remnant known as the Church showing forth His Glory, God always has a witness.