You Can't Hide From God

This from the South Florida Sun Sentinel: Chaplain at Hospice by the Sea in Boca Raton resigns over ban on word 'God'

Why do some people who choose not to believe in God try so hard to take it away from those who choose to believe? Like Bill Maher's film "Religulous". The title is a combination of the words religious and ridiculous, which is exactly what the film was about.

Let's say there is no God. Why spend the time and effort to destroy something that harms no one! Certainly not the people dieing at this hospice. Yes I know all about the Spanish inquisition and the Crusades. Note: Not all things done in the name of Christ is Christian.

I'll tell you my theory as to why they do this. Because they can't silence their conscience. Deep down inside they fear that there really might be a God. And if this God is the God the Christian bible describes, then that God is going to hold me responsible for my actions. So I must try and remove all reminders of this God and hide from Him. Does that sound familiar? In Genesis after the fall of man what did Adam and Eve do? They hid because they were ashamed of their sin.

News flash: We've all sinned and God will hold us all responsible. God judges us against His Holy standard. He doesn't compare us to other people, like we do when we say "Well, at least I am not as bad as him!"

The Good News: We don't have to hide. God loves us so much that He Himself, the only one who is able to pay for our sin, paid the price for us. God in the flesh, Jesus, dies upon the cross to satisfy God's own Holy law that says the penalty of sin is death. He died for us and we receive His holiness in return.

Are you still hiding?