Although he’s considered one of the greatest twentieth century philosophers, I believe Jean-Paul Sartre committed two of this past century’s most prevalent errors of thinking.

First, Sartre confused his feelings with reality. You see this all the time. A man wakes up one morning, rolls over, looks at his wife, and realizes he doesn’t have any feelings for her anymore. This lack of feelings of love shocks him so much he decides it must be the truth. So he acts accordingly, forgetting that love is more than a momentary feeling. In reality, to love is a decision we make over and over, as we see in 1 Corinthians 13 in the Bible, “Love is patient, love is kind…love never ceases to be.”

Second, Sartre confused an event with fate. When he cursed God as a boy, he felt he had sealed his destiny. There was no looking back, no recognition that he could choose otherwise, and return to God in repentance.

Shortly before his death, however, Sartre relented. The National Review quoted him saying: “I do not feel that I am the product of chance, a speck of dust in the universe, but someone who was expected, prepared, prefigured. In short, a being whom only a Creator could put here; and this idea of a creating hand refers to God.”

Like Sartre, we all need to embrace faith in our God, our Creator. Don’t put it off another day. Give Him your life today.

This is Luis Palau.