Moral Resistance

"A man rejects God neither because of intellectual demands nor because of the scarcity of evidence. A man rejects God because of a moral resistance that refuses to admit his need for God".
---Ravi Zacharias


What keeps people from coming to God? Zacharias hit the nail on the head. A lot of skeptics I know hide behind their intellectual prowess, claiming that God cannot exist because of some scientific explanation or some philosophical fallacy. No, the reason people refuse to come to God is because of pride. Pride was the downfall of the Adversary and pride was the downfall of man. Pride hardens the heart. Pride makes a man think there is nothing above himself. It makes him think that if he gives up his life to God, he is losing himself. Jesus said that whoever keeps his life will lose but if they give it freely, they gain life. Where is the slavery there? Where does it ever say that God wishes to enslave the human race? Jesus came to die to FREE the human race, not condemn it nor enslave it.

The secular world refuses to grasp onto Jesus because they don't want to lose themselves. They don't want Jesus to change them, which he changes us all after experiencing him. The cross is a symbol of divine justice, love and ultimately grace. Through the death of Jesus, we are able to live. There is no working to earn God's love or favor. We already have it. We already have God's grace and forgiveness. That, my friends, is a reason to live.