Secularism

Secularism is one of the greatest enemies of Christ ever created by Satan. Many people today have gone the way of the secularist. Secularism often comes under the pretense of communal benefit. The idea is that if we were all just secular, then no one would ever get offended or excluded. Excluding non-secularists, of course, no matter what else they believe, is always the one acceptable discrimination. Of course, the neo-atheist evangelists of our day would be more than happy to have us all abandon any idea of God for their humdrum evolutionary mediocrity. Secularism has been described as that process whereby all religious beliefs, ideas, and institutions lose their social significance. We have certainly seen this accelerated in our day. It comes about in the hedonistic pursuit of sex, money, or power and there’s surely plenty of them all to go around today. Secularism is most closely associated with atheism, but many secularists are agnostics. Secularism is the false idea that there’s somewhere that God has nothing to do with, or where he’s just downright not present. Back in 2021, the leftwing New York Congressman Jerry Nadler demonstrated the accepted secularist mindset of our day when he said, “What any religious tradition describes as God’s will is no concern of this Congress” as he was debating the so-called, “Equality Act.” The tide of wisdom has turned to such men getting away with making statements like this without repercussion. America has gone the way of secularism and so it is dying. America was formed expressly as a society concerned with (the Protestant) God’s will. The documents drafted as its basis, as much as they’re lived up to, make our government’s foundation the best the world has ever seen.

God is everywhere at all times, however. He’s omnipresent. There’s nowhere he’s not. There is nothing secular therefore about life anywhere, reader. Wherever you are, you can bring the wisdom and counsel of God to bear there. At work, in your family, where you play sports, everywhere. And you only have one short life to do it in. We in the Christian church sometimes seem to believe that unless we’re in ministry for a living that we’re not serving the Lord like a pastor or other church leader might be. I’ve recently finished a few wonderful books challenging such ideas with great biblical insights on the beauty and sacredness of secular work.

I want to encourage you to not live like the secularists. Do all that you can, in every place you are in life, to the honor of God. It’s not that you must do “Christian things” in the midst of whatever you. Supposing any of it is good biblically speaking, those things are the very things you can do to his honor. Wherever you are, you’re not alone. God is there.

“Where can I go to escape your Spirit?
Where can I flee to escape your presence?
If I were to ascend to heaven, you would be there.
If I were to sprawl out in Sheol, there you would be.
If I were to fly away on the wings of the dawn,
and settle down on the other side of the sea,
even there your hand would guide me,
your right hand would grab hold of me.”
Psalm 139:7-10.

Again, God is there. Don’t listen to the lies of anyone anywhere that says otherwise. Secularism is a death sentence. What God says about anything in his word should be of the utmost importance to us all.