The Futility of Living Without Hearing from God

Have you ever gone a trip and just aimlessly started walking or driving, not having any idea where you were going?

Unless you were suffering from the onset of dementia or Alzheimers, probably not.

And yet the world is full of people and nations that are a on a trip to nowhere.

By-and-large this is because God has been kicked to the curb, and especially as it relates to completely excluding any reading or studying of God’s Word, the Bible.

Hence, people and nations have no objective reason to explain what they’re doing or why they’re doing it.

Every action taken and every word spoken is for purely self-centered or narcissistic reasons, and if God or the Bible are brought up, it is not out of dependence up either; they are mere conveniences to be manipulated or twisted into whatever idol the referrer has chosen to make it.

Even in most so-called “Christian” churches, the Bible has completely lost its authority over the church leaders and congregations.

The Bible only serves a springboard for what the propagator wishes God would have said, but never did, because the propagator’s opinions are thought to be more important and authoritative than anything God ever DID say.

The result of all the biblical negligence is a world gone crazy and many a Christian congregation that has lost its first love, much less any authoritative counsel.

Ironically, with the advent of the Internet, podcasts, and social media, millions want to be heard or noticed, even though they really have nothing to say.

What is needed is a new reformation or return to the Bible, and start listening, again, to what God has to say.

Otherwise, humanity, as a whole, is bound to destruction; a rudderless ship stuck on the sandbars of futility.

About the Author

Paul Derengowski, Ph.D.
Founder of the Christian Apologetics Project PhD, Theology with Dogmatics, North-West University (2018); MA Apologetics with Honors, BIOLA University (2007); ThM, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (2003); MDiv, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (2000); BA Pastoral Ministry & Bible, Baptist Bible College (1992)