You Can’t Spell Good Without God

In Psalm 53:1 David exclaims, “The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God," They are corrupt, and have committed abominable injustice; There is no one who does good.”

Often, we focus on the first part of that verse, the idea of the foolishness that comes from denying God. However, the last part makes a strong point as well. When we eliminated God, we also take away good.

Without God, there is no good. God is the arbitrator of right and wrong. If we remove his overarching judgments, then man determines what good is. And if mankind has proven anything about himself, it's that when left to his own devices he does what he wants and not necessarily what is good. Without a standard, we descend into evil

Consider the time of the Judges when “everyone did what was right in his own eyes”. They became as bad as Sodom and Gomorrah! Think of man before the flood when “every thought of his heart was evil continually”. Consider our modern world that has declared there is no absolute truth. Do we see people behaving better when we take away normative standards?

In all the ways we need God, none is as important, even if we don’t always see it, as his role as the definer of what is good and right. If there is no God, there is no good!

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