A WORD TO THE AITHEST

 By Deacon wamuo 

We encounter all manner of people, in our life’s journey, and this makes us to think earnestly why some of these people take the stand they take. I used to know a professor, well-educated and well endowed with blessings of God, who blatantly held the view, that there is no God. I used to pity him. I was told that he suffered a terminal illness that crippled him financially and that as he was passing on he eventually, at that mid-night hour of life publicly acknowledged that indeed, there is God.

In my study, I have come to realize that there are three kinds of atheists, maybe you may know more than me.

The first are deep thinkers who in the course of studying the philosophical systems of ancient and modern times, have been turned aside and alas missed God. I don’t know if such studies have brought you to this point?

The second kind are those who, without any judgement and in parrot fashion, repeat what they hear from others.

The third kind consists of those whose past life holds some evil deed, so that they cannot help but wish that there is no God of holiness and righteousness. They take comfort in the claim that there is no God, and so go on sinning to their hearts desire.

Unfortunately there is no fourth kind. Let me assume you are not an atheist out of stupidity, or on account of a bad conscience, but that you are one of those who on the grounds of your own -as you say- ,well founded considerations have come to the conclusion that there is no God. Let us go to the bible and see what it says in Genesis 1:1, the bible says that

” In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth”.

How can a mortal dispute this simple factual statement? When we look at creation, we are indeed amazed at how everything is ordered. The sun has never risen from the west, look at the earth we walk on, it has withstood all pressures to cave in under constant load that is ferried on it daily, under countless earthquakes that have occurred, even under numerous bombs detonated on it. Take a look at the faces of fellow humans, you can’t find any two persons that are the same, even identical twins.

There must be a master architect who has arranged it all. Friends, as we access the year 2016, I encourage you, if you are the one I have been addressing, kindly surrender to the one God who created you in your mother’s womb and who has given you life up to this time. Know this, Jesus Christ, the one whose birth we have just commemorated loves you so much and wants you both now and in eternity. You wont miss heaven. Amen!