Fri.-Sabbath, 5/16-18/25 Devotion

Thank God—Sunday is almost here! In order to help us get ready for church, here are some intriguing words from John Owen, in his “Spiritual-Minded-ness” book. . . .

“There are no greater atheists to be found in this world than those who have despised and rejected Christianity. Christianity is the fullest revelation that God has ever made and it is the last He will ever make in this world. If this revelation is despised, if men rebel against the light and power, nothing can keep them from the extreme atheism of which man’s nature is capable. It is stupid to expect help from inferior things when the highest and most noble are rejected. Reason and the light of nature give excellent proofs of the existence of God, and from them come such arguments which expose the foolishness of atheism. These rational proofs were sufficient to keep men in the know-ledge of the divine power and Godhead who never had higher revelation to help them. But where men have had the benefit of divine revelation, and have, through the love of sin and the hatred of everything that is truly good, rejected all inward convictions of the existence, power, and rule of God, they will not be kept in the Christian faith by all the arguments of reason or the ev-idence of the light of nature."