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Unbelief in God

 In a climate of unbelief it can be hard to stay encouraged as a Christian. Where people are doubting and even wholeheartedly rejecting the cross on which Jesus Christ died for our sins, it can leave us feeling like there is no hope for the future. To stay encouraged we need to remind ourselves of the truth, and because the Holy Spirit’s job is precisely that, we can stay hopeful even when the truth is no longer accepted in our culture. The bible talks about a departure from the faith in the last days, and when I was younger as compared to now, I have never seen such a widespread departure from Christianity in what is now a completely secular culture.


As a youth, our culture was saturated with God and belief in God. Not everyone was saved, but there was very little opposition to Christian belief. The 21st century has deconstructed the faith and made it an enemy to progress and enlightenment, and revealed just how much Christianity is hated by our secular world. There was a time when I struggled with the verse in the bible that said “The world will hate you” I couldn’t imagine being hated because you were a Christian in the 1990’s, but then the world changed, and those verses in the bible came true. Truly a departure from the faith that the bible predicted would happen.


Why this has to happen before Jesus returns is because when our Lord comes back he will judge this world. Ever since Jesus Christ ascended into heaven, his second coming has been imminent, however we are seeing the signs now more than ever in a world that has rejected God. We can’t see into eternity or heaven, but that doesn’t make those realities less real, we can’t see angels unless they are revealed to us, but angels are real. It takes faith to believe the bible and to be saved, but this is what the world is fighting against, the ability to see and believe spiritual things, that once were widely accepted in our world. God forgive us. 


Romans says that when we do this we are professing ourselves to be wise, but we are actually foolish (Romans 1:22). What this generation has done is highlighted what was hidden in previous generations or not fully ripe, the darkness that exists in human hearts apart from God. Hell is a place of darkness and judgment, it is deprived of the love and the light that comes from God. Because you don’t believe in hell, or you live like it doesn’t exist, doesn’t make it so. You need to repent and come out of the darkness, God wants you to be reconciled to him. When Jesus returns it will be too late, so be reconciled to God now, while you still have the time. This is Mike.


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