It seems to me that people indeed have a God-hole deep in their beings, one that cries out to be filled one way or another. It is a driving need that can be suppressed, but only by substitution.

If we have not filled this need in the only rational and viable way possible–through accepting the salvation offered by Jesus Christ, then we invent gods to denigrate as we substitute ourselves as supreme beings: rational, wise, and adequate.

The gods we invent and hold up as the g…ods of others are small and petty, inadequate for the task. We, on the other hand, exercise only the purest and noblest rationality as we judge the world from our pedestal in the light of our superior wisdom.

In the end, in those dark quiet moments, the doubts and fears of our own inadequacies haunt us.

The answer is clear but not appealing even in our doubts: surrender our all to the God of Creation. The Apostle Paul even called himself a prisoner of his Lord. In our world that is against the demands of rationalistic Me-ism.

That same Apostle also wrote of one of the benefits of surrendering to God: it brings pease that passes all understanding. The fears of self-doubt are replaced with a deep inner peace that can’t be displaced even in the reality of an imperfect and sometimes devastating world.

The choice is clear: millions of individual Selfs as false centers of the universe (a logical impossibility), or the God who created and sustains everything by the word of His power, and who cares enough about you to provide a personal relationship with Him through His Son, Jesus.