Psalm 14:1a  The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.”  (NIV)

I remember reading a Peanuts cartoon some years back. Lucy had just been mean to her brother Linus.  It was winter, and Linus went outside and built a snowman that looked like Lucy. When she saw it, she came running out and said, “You think you are so smart!  You built a snowman that looks like me. And now you are going to kick it apart!”

Linus said, “Quite to the contrary. I am just going to stand here and watch it slowly melt away.”

The footnote for the Bible verse above in the NIV says that the Hebrew word used for “fool” means someone who is morally deficient. Upon checking into it, I found Strong’s Hebrew dictionary states that it also means among other things, to fade away, to be senseless, to sink, to wither.

Without God, without a sense of higher purpose, or a belief that there is a higher good or truth, it becomes decidedly easy to drift through life and sink into a void, and slowly (sometimes quickly), fade into oblivion.

Without God, we can easily become like Linus’ snowman and just melt away.