March 17
Man tends to negate the interest level of God in the affairs of men. Man often relegates God to a dusty corner of his existence and presumes that since he doesn’t think about God, God isn’t thinking about him. Some members of the human family negate the existence of God altogether. Man is in error in either case.
Deists are people who believe God created the universe and placed man upon the Earth and then simply adopted a ‘hands-off’ approach to man and his circumstances. They justify this rationale by saying that if God cared, if He really were a ‘hands-on’ God, He wouldn’t allow the sadness, the sorrow, the evil that exists on the planet.
Atheists justify their disbelief in the same way. People in both categories of unbelief have negated the events of the Garden of Eden. There, God walked with man, communed with man, interacted with man. It was man who terminated the intimacy of the relationship he and God enjoyed. If God seems detached from men, it is because men have persisted in the pattern established by the first humans. (See Genesis 1:26-Genesis 3:24). But Jesus came to restore intimate fellowship with God.
He bore our punishment so our sin would no longer separate us from the Father who desires a relationship with His children. But, whether or not we accept the sacrifice our Savior made in our behalf, our God is watching and evaluating our lives. As Jeremiah 17:10 makes clear, “I the Lord search the heart and examine the mind, to reward a man according to his conduct, according to what his deeds deserve.” God’s interest in us is evidenced by His salvation through Christ and by His constant watch over us.
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