MAKING FUN OF GOD

It’s almost a cliché  - when confronted by something or someone we don’t know or like, or by an idea that is new or threatening to us, we look for ways to dismiss it or make it irrelevant. We even ridicule it. It’s unfortunate (at least, most of the time) when this happens on a relational or intellectual level.

I say “most of the time” because sometimes there are good reasons for dismissing a person or idea. For example, parents have the right to step in when their child is developing an unhealthy relationship. On the intellectual or cultural level, some ideas are not as clever, original, or beneficial as their advocates claim.

However, there is one case in which we should never reject out-of-hand. Too often we dismiss God & make Him irrelevant. We make fun of Him.

Maybe it’s in our words, & maybe it’s in our actions (or lack of them). Sometimes it’s in heart attitudes that He alone can see.

Sometimes it’s when we think we as a culture know more or better better than what He has revealed in the Bible. This is now happening with moral standards.

Sometimes it’s when we think we have to “do something” in order to earn God’s favor. We’re actually saying that somehow Christ’s sacrifice on the cross is insufficient for us.

We make fun of God; we trivialize Him. He threatens our personal autonomy. We can’t have that now, can we? 

After all, who’s really in charge of the “real world?”