I No Longer Believe

On ABC Evening News yesterday there was a segment about Evangelical Pastors who no longer believe what they preach. They have decided the Bible is not true, and their “faith” is gone.

ABC interviewed  two (2) Pastors on the segment and I am not sure if they were aware of any more – but the two both seemed to believe that there were “many” more. . .or perhaps they just “hoped” there were many more.

Since I don’t personally know any such Pastor, I though I would take a moment to be critical. One Pastor (the two they interviewed are both still working as Pastors) in response to a question about being fearful after coming to the conclusion that God did not exist, said, “I asked God to take my life before I lost my faith.”  That has got to be a (excuse me) dumb statement. If one had not already “lost” his faith, why would he pray such a prayer, and to whom would he be addressing it? And, more importantly, why would you ask a god to “take your life” if that god is not capable of maintaining the “life he gave you” (which in the Believer is a new life through the redemption provided by Jesus Christ) in the first place?

The Bible says, “I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that He is able to guard what has been entrusted to me until that day” (referring to the return of the Lord for His Bride) 2 Timothy 1:12b.

I cannot lose what He is maintaining (guarding; keeping [KJV]). I don’t have to “keep the faith,”  that is His job. My job is to live, enjoy, experience, possess, and rest, in that faith.

For those two guys on ABC, I pray you are only having a bad day, or week, or year, and that God will draw you willing heart back to Himself. But the harsh Truth is, if you don’t have “the faith” now, you never did. God has never, will never, can never lose one of His own (that would be foreign to His nature).

And that’s the Truth!!