For though ye had smitten the whole army of the Chaldeans that fight against you, and there remained but wounded men among them, yet should they rise up every man in his tent, and burn this city with fire.
I've been contemplating this thought: "There are very few true atheists. There may be far fewer true believers." I don't believe there are any true atheists because it is impossible to know for sure that God does not exist. I think, in reality, they are merely agnostics. But from what I've witnessed in forty-seven years of my faith and the forty years of my ministry, professing believers tend to be quite reluctant to trust God for immediate or major (albeit temporal) things. It's concerning that a person would claim to trust God for the most important matter anyone will ever face—their eternal destiny but demonstrate a nearly complete lack of faith for the little things of these seventy-some years we dwell in this body.
Notice what God says to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. He had warned them that it was His will they surrender to Babylon, that it was His will they experience this time of chastening. God then told Jerusalem, "Even if you defeat the Babylonian army so that there is none of them left but some wounded soldiers, I will still cause them to rise up against you and destroy this city."
God is. God often uses people both to reward and to judge. But God is the One at work. He can save by many or by few. He can defeat by many or by few. The fact is the many or the few is of little consequence - because God is.
Believing God means trusting God.
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Trusting God in All Things: Atheism, Agnosticism, and the Uncertainty of Human Belief Systems
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