These are sober days for Western Christianity. I say that not because the world is suddenly more evil than before, as many in the church believe and certainly not because we face greater dangers of physical persecution and death. Rather, it is a time in which Christians, who for the most part remain oblivious to it, are facing a sustained, unrelenting, concerted and vicious assault on their minds. As a result many are lost in a fog of uncertainty of belief, barely cloaked in the decomposing threads of previously cherished truth, indecisive on the nature of God and morality, confused and intimidated by the ravings of those who style themselves as the enemies of God to widespread applause from a wilful self indulgent generation.
What has ensued has been, for many believers, an almost imperceptible shift from the biblical revelation of God to embracing a new definition of the divine being. An attractive, socially acceptable, shiny ‘golden calf’ has become their object of worship in our postmodern age; a god strangely akin to the ‘gods’ of the world they ostensibly forsook when they at one time expressed faith in the living God, a mute god who cannot speak, a passive god who has no likes or dislikes, no rules of conduct, no moral absolutes, a god merely grateful to be acknowledged, created by and in the image of its worshippers, unstable in his views, licentious, amoral, ‘affirming’; a thoroughly palatable and non offensive deity even to the most worship averse.
When Moses tarried on the mountain, the people lost hope in the Almighty, invisible God, they lost their connection to Him, they lost their faith in His presence and provision and desire to follow His laws; God’s ways did not suit them. They had Continue Reading…
