Tuesday, December 29, 2015
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
Genesis 1:1(NLT)
Devotion VIDEO here
In the same way that a novel-writer will not attempt
to prove that he exists, the Bible does not attempt to prove the existence of
God. The first four words of Genesis
tell the story – In the beginning God....
With that the Bible assumes what addle-brained atheists, and so-called intellectual
evolutionists have been wrong about for centuries...God IS!
Protagoras, a philosopher who lived 2500 years ago,
said: Man is the measure of all things:
of things which are, that they are so, and of things which are not, that they
are not.[2]
That's like saying that the genius in
automatic transmissions is the intricate gears, or that the beauty of the Mona
Lisa is in paint and canvas. Man (according
to Scripture) may be the crown of all creation, but he is still the object
of creation, and not the Creator; for that you need God!
A car’s transmission would never have existed without
the excellence of a human engineer putting it together; the Mona Lisa’s beauty
never could have shown from the canvas, except it first existed in the mind of
a master artist. In just that way, the
center of every original thought and deed of all time and eternity is the One
we call God. As Psalms 14:1 tells us, it is
only the fool who has said in his heart, there is no God.
For those of us who believe in God, we want to do our
best to persuade those who do not. A man
asked another man on the street about God; why
do people say God is everywhere? I don't
see him anywhere. With that the
other man picked up a rock and clobbered him with it.
Why did you do that, asked the complainer, man that hurts!
The rock-wielder replied, you say you have pain in your head; I don't SEE any pain. Show me
your pain and I'll believe it exists! The
man made his point.
But it is largely unnecessary to convince ANYONE, because the Bible says the reality of God
is apparent to all people even as they behold the things of nature.[3]
Anyone who can look at the wonder and
complexity of the creation in which we exist and still proclaim God doesn’t
exist is either not being honest, or he’s a fruitcake and therefore dangerous.
The fact is that knowledge of God is inherent in
created beings. We KNOW He's real! And any nonsense about Him being dead,
asleep, or never was, is just THAT....NONSENSE!
For You Today
You were never asked to
prove God to anyone; just show them the reality of God in you as you live the
God-journey every day.
You chew on that out on that
Rocky Road today…and have a joy-filled and blessed day!
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