What Does God Think?

"For the wicked boasts of his heart's desire, and the greedy man curses and spurns the Lord.  The wicked, in the haughtiness of his countenance, does not seek Him.  All his thoughts are, 'There is no God'" (Psalm 10:3-4)

We are being bombarded today, beloved, with words that sound to so many to be right and just and good.  Words like "EQUALITY" and "FAIR" are being waved in the faces of followers of Christ even as we are being touted as "narrow-minded" and "bigoted" and even "hate-mongers."  And it is all because we have taken a stand for the real "right" - not what man says is right but what God says is right.

And in the midst of this hullabaloo I personally have yet to hear a single individual shouting such political buzzwords ask one key question: "What does God think?"  The simple reason tragically is that no one cares.  Ignoring what God thinks has become a way of life in our society, beloved, and is certainly nothing that began with us.  Note here what King David of Israel said about the God-haters of his day.  He first boasted of his heart's desire.  Does that sound vaguely familiar to any one today?  It should!  Stop long enough to really pay attention to what is being said and you will quickly discover that man today thinks that this life is all about him.  What I want, what I believe, what I can rationalize is all that matters.  I am free, so they say, to do anything that makes me happy.  That, they say, is my "God-given right."

But David said also about sinful man in his day that in a haughty manner he refused to seek what God thinks.  David went on to say in later verses in this same chapter that, even for those who acknowledged the existence of God, his thought was that God has forgotten; He has hidden His face; He will never see it (v. 11).  Very simply, beloved, no one is asking today what God thinks.

If ever there was a time in human history, especially here in our own society, for Christians to stand up for what God both thinks and declares in His Word, then that time is now!  You see, we serve God by serving those among whom He has placed us.  That is, after all, the reason for His putting us where we are!  When we ignore what is going on around us morally, when we go into our churches and shut ourselves in and the world out, we are not serving man.  And by not serving man among whom God has placed us and for whom Christ died, we are no longer serving God.  We are here to proclaim clearly what God thinks, beloved, and what God says.  We are here to proclaim the good news of God's grace and forgiveness in Jesus Christ.

So what does God think according to you?  And even more important a question than that is: "What do others know about what God thinks because you as His messenger are not silent?"

Ron