Mark Tabata’s Weekday Devotionals
Wednesday, September 23
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Romans 1:18-20-For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, 19 because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them. 20 For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse,
The story is told of a young man who had been raised in church and decided to go to college. Upon returning home for a holiday, the young man tells his father that he will no longer be attending church services.
Dad: Son, why would you stop going to church?
Son: Dad, I have learned that God does not exist.
Dad: How have you arrived at this conclusion?
Son: The only things I can know exist are what I can see, hear, taste, touch, or smell. Since I cannot see, hear, taste, touch, or smell God, then I cannot know that God exists.
Dad: My boy, have you ever seen heard, tasted, touched or smelled your brain?
Son: No.
Dad: Then based on your argument, we can only conclude that you are brainless.
This humorous story illustrates the futility of a doctrine in our world known as materialism. This idea says that the only things which we can be sure exist are things which we can emotionally prove through our five senses. Many have been deluded by this idea, and I am convinced have not really thought it through.
One way that materialism is proven false is in the matrix discovery of science that that majority of the universe itself is invisible to humanity!
All told, astronomers have concluded that dark energy comprises some 68 percent of the total universe and dark matter, about 27 percent. That means only 5 percent of the entire universe is visible to us! 8 That astonishing revelation bears emphasizing. Everything we call scientific knowledge is based on but a pittance of what there is to know about our world. Ninety-five percent of it is hidden from us. In light of this latest bombshell, do we stand a chance of ever really understanding gravity? Astronomers are hard at work believing they can. But they must labor with the unsettling awareness that our science is 95 percent in the dark about the universe it seeks and claims to understand; about what is real or not, what is possible or not—even about a prosaic force that exists literally right under our noses. (Dr. Michael Guillen, PhD, Amazing Truths: How Science and the Bible Agree, 60 (Kindle Edition): Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan)
There are many invisible things which are clearly seen through nature, including the fact of God’s existence. Sadly, many people would rather close their eyes to what is true in order to maintain their delusions of unbelief.
May we choose a better path.
Lord, please open our eyes to see You. Amen.