There's Probably No God

The kill-them-softly message on the side of a London double-decker bus echoes such a controversy and commands such an attention around the world!

The paid ad by the Humanist Society of Britain allures, "There's probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life."

This triggered a copy-cat response from the U.S. Humanist Society with this message on their buses in Washington , D.C., "Why believe in god? Just be good for goodness' sake."

This outburst of anti-Christianity sentiment is by no means new. I remember the "God is Dead" movement in the early '70's.

This is the kind of of arrogant statement of anti-faith that totally delights the enemy!

Apparently, the United Church of Canada offers a response to the bus ad with "Probably there's a God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life."

That's a very clever response as well as a statement of theology that is deeper than what appears.

However, I would like to remove two words from the United Church response. I'd take out "probably" and "a" all together.

My response is: "There's God. Now stop worrying and enjoy life."

If the world and its humanists know experientially what kind of God we have, they would truly relax with no worries and begin to enjoy life abundant on this side of eternity.

It's God who is the constant in a state of flux. It's God who is order in chaos. It's God who is love in a world of hate. It's God who is light and hope in a world where there is only darkness and despair. It's God who is mercy in a culture that demands a pound of flesh. It's God who is grace in a school of thought that demands a perfect score.

Jesus comforts us with these words in the Gospel of Matthew: "Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear...Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?" Matthew 7:25-27

The world and its humanists have totally missed the point of Christ-faith (synonymous with Christianity). They do not know who God truly is. They tend to attribute to God the qualities and characteristics found in other gods. The word "humanist" denotes limitations in being able to discern notions that defy human cognition... notions of the spirit and the heart

Belief in an almighty and loving God and faith in a Redeemer-King cannot, though too often, reducible to rule-based religiosity that contains a litany of behavioural objectives, such as ten thousand "Thou shall nots".

The Christ-God (Christian God) is all love, truth, and unchanging faithfulness.

He created us out of love. He gives us a free will out of love. He lets us self-destroy out of love because His gift of allowing us freedom to choose is bigger than an imposition of His will on us. Yet, He often turns our mistakes into positive outcomes out of love as well. That was why God chose to trade His majestic throne room for a wooden cross out of love for each one of us. He knows that I cannot pay the sin-debt that I owe. He chooses to pay it for me, thus making me totally solvent.

He is the God who says to me: "Relax. Enjoy life abundant I am giving you. Eternity is now. As a matter of fact, it is made up of nows. Have My peace that is beyond all carnal understanding. Live well and prosper!"

Now, with a God like this, who wouldn't stop worrying and enjoy life?