The One Who Ignores God

January 14 2015 - Psalm 14

If you ignore things that are obvious fact you can become ignorant of them and you can become darkened in your thinking.  God is real.  The truth of His existence is like the existence of oxygen in that He is invisible but there. He is not measureable in density but He is verifiable in evidence.  The magnificent world that He has made tells of His greatness.  From the ant to the eagle to the mountain to the clouds to the stars there stretches a masterpiece of his creativity.  

So when David writes of the person who has ignored the spiritual spiritual source of this universe he describes such a person as a fool.  He says, the spiritually ignorant fool has said in his heart, “there is no God.”   David goes on to say that the ones who ignore their Creator become corrupt and have committed themselves to repulsive and unspeakable deeds.  Actually, the desire to do whatever we want to do is the reason we kill God.  Then no one can tell us what to do.  In his letter to the Roman church Paul echoes David’s words that of the fools who ignore God there is none who do good.  

Verse 2 says, “The LORD has looke down from heaven to see if there are any who act wisely and live to seek Him, longing for His wisdom and guidance.  David concludes that God can’t really find anyone who cares about what is doing right.  Together the people of this Earth have all become corrupt to the point where there is no one who does good on his own anymore.  We have all gone dark without Him.  We have all become ignorant of Him and His nature.  

David goes on to say that we have all become like dogs in this dog eat dog world.  We devour each other as easily as we devour bread.  I see that kind of man in the mirror.  Someone who one minute says he wants to be like Jesus and the next I am devouring a brother in condemnation and in gossip with a dog’s attitude.  I do not call on God on my own.  If it wasn’t for His Spirit’s calling to me I would just ignore Him and not talk to Him or listen to Him.  I act like, “I got this” when I don’t.

But David says there is a remnant of people that want more than this world.  They may have even tried the world’s pleasures and found them to be wanting.  The sin around them no longer tastes good.  It is slop.  And when these people see the corruption around them they tremble with fear because they know God is holy and that this challenge to Him will not end up well for the challengers.  But David says that God will be with those who seek Him.  The ones who seek Him will find what they look for and He will protect them and save them.  David says, God is with the consistently righteous generation.  That would be the people who seriously want Him and they demonstrate it by being consistent in their pursuit of Him.  That is a good point because we seem to think we can fool God and go to church but never really want Him or ever really change.  That isn’t a consistent pursuit of Him.  That is religion.  

David warns that evildoers who shamefully plan against the poor will lose to the poor because they are safe in God and they will eventually be the ones who rule over them.  The LORD is the poor man’s refuge where money is the rich man’s refuge.

David longs for that day when he says, Oh, that the salvation of God’s people would come soon.  He wants that day of justice to come where the Lord will release the captives and all who belong to Him will be glad when freedom hits the streets and joy is the air we breathe.

But that will come for those who do not ignore their Creator.  The fool will not be happy on that day.