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======No God ...======
Tuesday, Mar 18, 2014. We live in a modern world. We have gone through a
period of fascinating discovery. Science has given us insight into huge
structures, into the universe with its gravitational forces, with electromagnetic
waves and fields. The globe is our home. On the other side, we have gained
insight into microscopic processes, into the chemistry of our body, into
atoms and molecules and smallest animals of micro size. In our world view,
there is no God.
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**Fools ...**
It might be, that we are just a little stupid in our modern world view, with all
our knowledge about science. We are like a human with one leg only - we have
one strong leg, but the other is not developed. We forgot a good part of our
existence, even the most important part. We have forgotten God. We have forgotten
the Lord. In Psalm 14, we are called to reason:
1 To the choirmaster. Of David. The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds, there is none who does good. 2 The Lord looks down from heaven on the children of man, to see if there are any who understand,1 who seek after God. 3 They have all turned aside; together they have become corrupt; there is none who does good, not even one. 4 Have they no knowledge, all the evildoers who eat up my people as they eat bread and do not call upon the Lord? 5 There they are in great terror, for God is with the generation of the righteous. 6 You would shame the plans of the poor, but the Lord is his refuge. 7 Oh, that salvation for Israel would come out of Zion! When the Lord restores the fortunes of his people, let Jacob rejoice, let Israel be glad.
(Psalm 14)
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**A different path ...**
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There is a lot of insight in this Psalm. It is a prophetic song. It talks about
our reality. It sees more than just the science world. It sees the Lord and his
presence.
The psalm also communicates insight into the ethical behaviour of people. It plainly
states that we are not doing well. "They are corrupt".
That is a strong statement, yet if you look into this world, into your own life,
you will probably find elements
to which this applies 100%. "They have all turned aside".
That is also true. Even
many of those who believe in the Lord have parts of their life where they just
turned aside. The psalm talks on two layers. One layer is the history and story
of Israel, the people of the Lord, called "my people" here. The second layer is
quite generic, it applies to all of us until today.
The psalm ends with a prophetic outline of the future: When
the Lord restores the fortunhes of his people. You might consider it
rather general, and it is. But looking back, and in the light of the many other
prophetic texts in Isaiah, Jeremia and Ezekiel, salvation is indicated and
foretold here already, a salvation which culminates in Christ Jesus and in the
New Testament. The psalm takes the turn from evil to salvation, from corruptness
to joy and gladness. In faith,
insight into failure, brought to the Lord, will always be turned into joy!
(Roland Potthast)
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