God’s Laughs at Man’s Calamity - Proverbs 1

 Proverbs 1:24-28 (ESV)

Because I have called and you refused to listen,

have stretched out my hand and no one has heeded,

because you have ignored all my counsel

and would have none of my reproof,

I also will laugh at your calamity;

I will mock when terror strikes you,

when terror strikes you like a storm

and your calamity comes like a whirlwind,

when distress and anguish come upon you.

Then they will call upon me, but I will not answer;

they will seek me diligently but will not find me.

The old phrase was, “fox-hole conversion.”  That is when you find yourself in trouble, jump into a hole and make an agreement with God to save you, only to forget that promise once you are out of the whole.  Mankind believes they can make a “deal” with God to save them in trouble, only to disregard their end of it, once delivered.   Mankind tends to think of God as great spare tire in the trunk of the car.   They believe that when they get a flat they can simply pop the trunk and put on the spare.  This gets them to the next stage of life where they can simply go back to the original tread and toss the little spare back into the trunk.   

The above passage talks about God’s thoughts on the “spare-tire” theory of life.   Somehow mankind thinks that God is an “on demand” service.   Like their internet connection, they simply think they can stream Him when they have a need to do so.  God is not obligated to answer the prayers of the non-believer.  God will not be at the end of a servant’s bell, running to bend to our wishes.  He is the God of the universe.  He will offer us His grace. But, when we reject His grace He is NOT simply going to drop everything to serve our whims.   He actually will “laugh” at the calamity of those who reject Him and then hope to have Him as their spare.