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Today's Devotional - April 15
Nones
The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity; there is none who does good.
Psalm 53:1
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People with no religious affiliation -- atheists and agnostics -- now make up the third-largest "religious" group in the world. According to the Pew Forum, 2.2 billion people call themselves Christian; 1.6 billion identify themselves as Muslims; and roughly a billion consider themselves "Nones," unaffiliated with any religion.
But everyone has a god, a controlling power in life. Everyone has a religion, a belief about matters of time and eternity. How we think about our "god" determines who we are. We inevitably become like the god we serve. If we reject the God of heaven, we unavoidably create lesser gods for ourselves, whether idols of wood or stone, or idols of the heart like egotism and greed. Atheism is as inferior to Christianity as falsehood is to the truth, both in its intellectual integrity and in its psychological implications.
If you're going to be a "None," be the kind that says: "No one is holy like the LORD, for there is none besides You. Noris there any rock like our God" (1 Samuel 2:2).
If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
G. K. Chesterton
Read-thru-the-Bible
1 Kings 16-18
