The Insanity around Us Is Rooted in Hatred of God

Bear with me here, please. For the sake of argument, let us accept as a starting point that there is actually a God who created the universe and us humans. Secondly, let us accept that this God is relational and designed us to live dependently and in harmony with him. Our third presupposition is that he is also just and will hold us accountable for how we live our lives, which are a treasure he gave to us in trust. What I just laid out is in fact what the Bible presents in its opening book called Genesis.

So, if you will allow me to take you a little further into the story, human beings quickly decided that they didn’t really trust their Creator and wanted to live independently from him. This led them to violate his one prohibition and eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thereby bringing into play God’s promised judgment – death and alienation. Ever since then, human beings come into this world with a default setting inherited from our first parents: we hate having our lives dictated to us by God. This is the nature of sin.

This includes you who were once far away from God. You were his enemies, separated from him by your evil thoughts and actions. Colossians 1:21 (NLT)

If we accept what I just laid out as being true, it will help us to better understand the insanity that currently grips our nation. When our nation was founded, a preponderance of our citizens had a healthy fear of God and the consequences of sin. Over the past many decades, especially since the revolution of the 1960s, our government and its people have deliberately distanced themselves from the Christian God and what the Bible teaches. Prayer was kicked out of our public schools under the guise of separation of church and state. Now we have “progressed” to legislating marriage between people of the same sex and opening our gender-specific public bathrooms to any person of any sex. We talk of people being “misgendered,” as if God made a mistake. On a different, yet related topic, our government has been overspending its budget for decades, apparently with no intention of ever living within its means again. Our law makers insanely must believe that there will never be an accounting or a day of reckoning. Many of our women celebrate having the right to kill their babies and Planned Parenthood gets away with selling their parts.

People don’t like the created order which God made and, sometimes, the way he made us. We want to throw off every hindrance to running our lives without accountability and without God.

I doubt that many people even are conscious of this inner drive to resist God. As the French philosopher Paschal is noted for saying, in paraphrase, that our hearts have reasons of which our minds know nothing.

The first chapter of Paul’s letter to the church in Rome contains a instructive exposition of this animosity against God that rules the human heart and often grips entire societies, just as it has here in the good old USA, which is no longer very good, I am afraid.

But God shows his anger from heaven against all sinful, wicked people who suppress the truth by their wickedness. ¹⁹  They know the truth about God because he has made it obvious to them. ²⁰  For ever since the world was created, people have seen the earth and sky. Through everything God made, they can clearly see his invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature. So they have no excuse for not knowing God. ²¹  Yes, they knew God, but they wouldn’t worship him as God or even give him thanks. And they began to think up foolish ideas of what God was like. As a result, their minds became dark and confused. Romans 1:18-21 (NLT)

An ancient Greek proverb says: “ Those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad .” There is an element of truth in this statement. Paul goes on to say in his Letter to the Church in Rome :

Since they thought it foolish to acknowledge God, he abandoned them to their foolish thinking and let them do things that should never be done. ²⁹  Their lives became full of every kind of wickedness, sin, greed, hate, envy, murder, quarreling, deception, malicious behavior, and gossip. ³⁰  They are backstabbers, haters of God, insolent, proud, and boastful. They invent new ways of sinning, and they disobey their parents. ³¹  They refuse to understand, break their promises, are heartless, and have no mercy. ³²  They know God’s justice requires that those who do these things deserve to die, yet they do them anyway. Worse yet, they encourage others to do them, too. Romans 1:28-32 (NLT)

Why can we not see this, America? If we do not repent as a nation, destruction is most certainly in our future. We will bring it on ourselves because of our poor decision making.

The Bible teaches that before coming to faith in Christ, people are “enemies of God.” This is an odd concept to a lot of people, who imagine themselves to be fine upstanding moral people, but who refuse to acknowledge that God has the right to direct their lives. It all comes down to one thing: is Jesus Lord of Lords, or not? If he is, then our only sane option is to surrender our lives to him. If he is not, let the lunacy continue because there is no way to call anything right or wrong, good or bad, decent or not. The only thing that matters is who has power – something the liberal Left knows and believes all too well.

This is the only way back for America, and only God’s Spirit can make this happen. Will he, or is it already too late for this once great, although deeply flawed, nation? (I am not suggesting we go backward to where we were regarding racism, etc., but that we return to faith in God.)

Yogi Berra once said that it’s not over till it’s over. As long as we have life, there is hope. On a personal level, you, the reader, can surrender to Christ right now, if you have not already done so. I have a prayer to help guide you at the end of this article.

If you have already surrendered to Christ, continue to do so every day from now on. Tell others about Christ and the Gospel, while there is still time. We can also pray for our nation. Surrender, share the Gospel, and pray. I believe that is the proper order. Prayer by itself cannot save. Only the Spirit empowered Gospel can do that; yet, our prayers are extremely important, too. Let’s ask God to once again extend his mercy to a rebellious and sinful nation.

Ultimately, the only hope for mankind is the Second Coming of our Lord and Savior, Jesus the Messiah. He will install his kingdom upon the earth. Every other form of government will fail, even ours. Make sure your hope is in God, not America or any other form of government.

God, I have lived in rebellious independence from you. Please forgive me. I now surrender my entire life to Jesus, who is the resurrected Lord. Holy Spirit, please fill me on a daily basis and empower me to live a surrendered, obedient life of service and love to my heavenly Father and Lord Jesus. Use me as you see fit to tell others about this amazingly generous gift of life found in the Gospel.

I ask you to forgive our nation for rebelling against you, Lord Jesus. Please grant us mercy and repentance. Let our nation come back to you and regain its ability to think with good judgment again before it’s too late. Amen.

The Insanity around Us Is Rooted in Hatred of God

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