Imagine living in a country where so much pollution is pumped into the atmosphere that the people can no longer see the sun. What a loss it would be for the folks living there! People who had lived all their lives in such a place might even begin to doubt such a thing as a sun even existed.
I know you would not like to live in a country so full of smog and dirty air that you could not see the sun. However, many people are living in a state spiritually which approaches this condition. The sun is the supreme object that we see in the sky, and God is the supreme being of the universe, but so many people are filling the atmosphere with talk about how the Creator God doesn’t exist and how we really are just the product of random chance that a generation is growing up having a great difficulty seeing the truth of God’s existence.
The quantity of false teaching about God may be overwhelming, but it will never alter the truth-God lives and reigns supreme! He is the great “I am,” the eternally existent one without beginning or end. His existence doesn’t depend on any other, while the existence of every other person or thing depends totally on Him. He is great in every way, whether in love, kindness, mercy, righteousness, holiness or wrath.
In the greatness of His love He sent His Son into the world to die in the sinner’s place. This same love is active in the world today seeking sinners, making them to know their lost condition, and then bringing them home to the Savior. A person’s sins may be as black as the pit of hell, but no matter how terrible those sins are, they will be forgiven and washed away if they turn to the Savior in faith. “Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow,” the psalmist wrote, and his words are absolutely true for every soul that trusts in the Lord Jesus.
Only by coming to the Lord Jesus can anyone leave behind the pollution of sin, shame and unbelief and have, as it were, the sun of God’s love shine into the depths of their dark hearts. They might have caught glimpses of its faint outline before, but until a person comes to Christ, he can never know God’s love in its depth and breadth and life-giving power in a personal way.
God pleads with man: “Arise ye, and depart, for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction” (Mic. 2:1010Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction. (Micah 2:10)). God is not willing that any man should perish. He wants all men to depart from that which is polluted and brings eternal death. He wants them to turn to the Savior and find the life He alone has to give. “I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish,” the Lord Jesus said.
Oh, be wise and come to God the Father through Jesus Christ His Son, and receive the gift of everlasting life today.