Atheists are very bold about their unbeliefs when their lives are going well. They enjoy their freedom to do whatever they want free of a “Higher Power,” until they get cancer or their plane is about to go down in a crash, then they are saying the “Our Father Prayer,” and “Jesus have mercy,” faster than oxygen masks can drop down. Because the honest truth is there are few fully committed Atheists, I mean people wiling to risk that there is not an eternity and God going to judge them.
It is incredible how fear of harm and the fear of death can make someone so adamantly against the faith become fastly theistic. Part of this is that no matter how brave a face atheists put on, the fear of death governs them as it does most people, and it is only Jesus that can take the fear of death from having its sting,
“Because God’s children are human beings—made of flesh and blood—the Son also became flesh and blood. For only as a human being could he die, and only by dying could he break the power of the devil, who had the power of death. Only in this way could he set free all who have lived their lives as slaves to the fear of dying,” (Hebrews 2: 14-15) and “Jesus tasted death for everyone.” (Hebrews 2:9), “Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do you believe this?” (John 11:25-26), and “O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, which gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.” (1 Corinthians 15:55-57). So it is natural that atheists when confronted by the fear and sting of death suddenly in a crisis call upon Christ because only He has conquered death for us who believe.
Atheism tends to stem from either rebellion and resentment towards God, and is more of antitheism (God’s Not Dead), or it is stems from disillusionment and bad religious experiences and a lack of a genuine real personal relationship with God, so it comes across as moral values rather than a love affair with Maker of Heaven and Earth. And yet these nonbelievers who have hearts hardened like Pharaoh in Exodus will one day find themselves like Yul Brenner’s Ramses II saying, “Moses God is God,” for all will confess Jesus as Lord, “Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” (Philippians 2:9-11). The problem is then it will be too late, and Lake of Fire prepared for them (Revelation 20:15) who rejected Jesus and thus are judged already (John 3:18). You have a life time to make the right choice, and confess Christ Jesus as Lord and Savior, as Son of God and God Incarnate. And yet time in hourglass is ever running out.. waiting is a risk. Atheists are risking their eternal fate to have semblance, an illusion that they are in control of their lives; they are only one accident, one diagnosis, and one great loss of all they hold dear away from being confronted with the words so eloquently written by Rich Mullins, “He wasn’t jokin when He kicked em out of Eden, it wasn’t for no reason that He shed His Blood, so you better be believ’in, our God is an Awesome God!” Amen.
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