Recovered In Christ

People who mock and deride the Bible’s account of creation remind me of my extended peasant family in the villages outside of Damascus, Syria, who could not grasp the simple idea of a microwave…”But…but how is it possible to cook something in a matter of minutes that fire would need hours to do??…how is it possible that the inner walls of the microwave are not hot to the touch even though the food is? Surely you are not serious!!” Trying to explain to them the behavior of water molecules and electromagnetic waves produces the same look in their eyes that talking about God’s sovereignty over time and space produces in even the brightest of non believers.

They think it takes a turning away from science and ‘reason’ to accept the possibility that God created the universe in the way he says he did in Genesis…when the truth is, their blind faith in the impossibility of a God who works outside the confines of their understanding is truly the most unscientific attitude there is.

It is as insane to deny an intelligent creator as it is for my friends down at the mental institution to deny that there are trees and grass in the park we sit in – trees and grass that we can plainly see but that they are unable to. It is not for lack of evidence. But lack of sanity. Spiritual sanity.

On the flip side – ‘believers’ who mock and deride those who cannot accept God at his word – do not understand the nature of fallen man and his inability to see the truth of the Gospel, to see what is so plain to a believer. He has substituted God’s supernatural work of grace that has dropped the scales from his eyes for a prideful jeering. Careful brother, for it is God’s mercy alone that enables you to see. It is God’s power alone that has corrected your perverted vision. Make sure your footing is stable lest it be you that slips.

“For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse. For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools,  and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.

Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves,  because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.”  Romans 1:18-24