Are You Paying Tribute To Your Maker?

The fool says in his heart, 'There is no God'" (Ps. 53:1) In the spring of the year, how could anyone believe there was no God?

Have you been up at 6 A.M. recently, to hear and see the frantic activities of Spring? Have you listened to the birds? Have you walked across the grass, and felt the soft springiness beneath your feet, and seen the thousands of dandelions? Have you examined the soil, and found the busy worms and seen the myriads of tiny roots? Or have you noticed the buds on the trees, bursting out with a kind of star‑spangled brilliance? Have you looked up into the heavens, and seen the vastness of the universe? If so, wouldn't you be a fool, to say God did not exist?

And yet sometimes we live as though He did not exist. We figure that everything else is more important than acknowledging Him. We decide that a lazy Sunday morning is more important to us, than to be in church. We spend our money on expensive foods, and expensive clothes, and expensive baubles, and then we put some "cheap" currency into our gift for the Lord. It is what we have been doing for years! We go to church now and then and sing, "Onward Christian Soldiers". But we don't act like we were "going to war" against anything. We don't really seem to believe that God is important!

I once had a funeral of an 80‑year‑old‑man, who had 5 children. None of them had seen their Dad for 15 years. Only one of them decided to come to the funeral. In a very real sense, these children did not know they had a father. How sad!

But do we do any better, when we give our token love to God, or when we give our token gifts to Him? It is as though we had no Heavenly Father! Don't be a fool! Even the flowers of the field pay tribute to their Maker!