Unbelief Is Belief - Micah 4:5

For all people walk each in the name of his god, but we will walk in the name of the Lord our God forever and ever. - Micah 4:5

    The current climate of “god hatred” permeating the secular (atheist) establishment is living contradiction in terms. How does one hate something he says doesn’t exist? You’ve heard the argument before, I’m sure. It is a good argument to be sure, especially when you consider just how much these haters of God worship their own gods so passionately.
    The prophet, Micah, saw this enigma unfolding even in his day (750 - 700 BC). So the hatred and animosity toward the one true living God is nothing new. The secularists and pseudo-atheists of the 21st century introduce nothing new to the nonsensical war between belief and unbelief. Obviously, not to believe in one thing inherently implies belief in another! They simply believe in different gods, gods of their own making! Despite God’s explicit warning, they, like Adam and Eve before them choose to disobey Him- “You shall have no other gods before Me.” - Exodus 20:3.
    Their gods may be wealth, notoriety, social control, science, or even themselves. The one thing they are not is the God of the Bible! “Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands. They have mouths, but they do not speak; eyes they have, but they do not see; they have ears, but they do not hear; noses they have, but they do not smell; they have hands, but they do not handle; feet they have, but they do not walk; nor do they mutter through their throat. Those who make them are like them; so is everyone who trusts in them.” - Psalm 115:4-8.
    As hard as these minions of false gods proclaim their disbelief, they are in fact shoring up their very belief in that which they have chosen to worship! Scripture warns us all, time and again, to avoid even the appearance of worshiping anything other than the one true God. We are admonished and given the choice - “And if it seems evil to you to serve the Lord, choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.” - Joshua 24:15. Joshua’s speech mirrors the words of Micah in depth and in detail.
    So the next time you hear someone say, “I don’t believe in God,” know that they do in fact believe in a god, a god of their own creation . . . and pray that they may one day see the one true God as revealed to us in Holy Scripture.