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Only fools say in their hearts, "There is no God." They are corrupt, and their actions are evil; not one of them does good! The Lord looks down from heaven on the entire human race; he looks to see if anyone is truly wise, if anyone seeks God. Psalm 14 1-2

Do you know that you will never be embarrassed by God or made foolish when Christ reigns. People may mock your faith and seek to belittle you with cruel words today. You may feel a fool for serving God while you live now, but what about the endless days of eternity...

You will be proved right, your faith will be genuine and all those that mocked you today will admit how devastatingly wrong they have been. The bible says a fool says in their hearts, there is no God.

Have we stopped and thought how ridiculous that is, and if it is true that there is no God, then there is no creator, there is no plan or design to our life. We are just be a bunch of chemicals floating around in an aimless state.

And yet we can breathe and make decisions. We can produce art and make music and our deepest longing, in fact an aching of our soul is to be loved and to love back. Can a lump of metal do that, are we really as insignificant as a rock. If we take God out of the equation, that sadly is the only conclusion we are left with. We are formed by a chemical reaction, we function until the chemicals go beyond their sell by date and that’s it, nothing else, no other hope or aspiration. No wonder God would call anyone a fool for not believing in God.

But this verse has an even bigger impact. If it is foolish to say there is no God, how much more foolish would it be, to ignore the obvious that there is a God and mock him. God is not one to be mocked (Gal 6:7) but by mocking you and insulting your faith, that is exactly what they are doing. They are bringing judgement on themselves.

It may be hard to understand why those close to us at work or in our families ridicule the name of Jesus in us. But that’s our world that lives in darkness.

Our part in this is not to take offence but learn to forgive, so that through our seemingly foolish actions they may find wisdom which is the light and truth about God.

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