I tend to think that when people stop believing the truth - they don’t believe nothing, they believe anything. I understand how we can be misled by different claims and confused by the overwhelming amount of information. I also appreciate that negative personal experience or more engaging current priorities can be a contributing factor in people dismissing God. I am well aware how the echo chambers that we inhabit recirculate our opinions and reinforce our prejudices. We are perhaps the most informed and least thoughtful generation in history
But this old Psalm starts with strong words which resonate through time. This Psalm and Psalm 53 start with the same opening refrain. That the fool says in his heart there is no God. This is a judgement being passed on a way of thinking and a way of living.
Many philosophers have advanced their view that there is no God.
From the post enlightenment declaration of the death of God, to the French existentialists to the four horsemen of the “new atheism” there has been a constant articulation of the non-existence of God. This has been popularised by musicians, artists, writers and comedians. At it’s core is the position that belief in God has no intellectual basis. What David says here that it is the reverse that is true.
This is the fourteenth of a series that began life as a commitment to Counting my Blessings every day after ankle surgery on July 2nd 2021.
Initially I made a brief post on social media and wrote a personal daily reflection on a Psalm following the same numerical progression.
Later on in the 100 days I began to also reflect on other scriptures and combine those into my public post
These thoughts from Psalms earlier in the journey have not been made public until now as I was writing primarily for my own benefit. I have been encouraged to share these now.
