Yeah, God!

I think anyone who denies the existence of God has to work pretty hard at it.

Yeah, God!

"The heavens declare the glory of God;
And the firmament shows His handiwork."

(Psalm 19:1)

While attending our student camp a couple of weeks ago, I took the following picture (see right; click to enlarge):

This picture reminds me of our focal text for today's devotional. Isaac Newton said, "One only needs to look at his or her thumb to know that there is a God." If a thumb displays God's ability to create, then how much more an eye, the brain, or the vast expanse of His created order? I look at this photo and cannot help but marvel and say, "Isn't God amazing?!"

Unfortunately, others look at the same thumb, sky, and any number of intricate and detailed things scattered all over our world and universe yet have a completely different conviction. They would say something along the lines, "Isn't evolution amazing?"

I think anyone who denies the existence of God has to work pretty hard at it. Or to use Frank Turek's line, "I don't have enough faith to be an atheist." There are two groups of highly educated professionals who have an especially hard time denying the existence of God, and those two groups are astronomers and ophthalmologists. Why these two? Both of these experts peer into the intricacies of the universe and see things the average person cannot see. I have heard it said that 90% of astronomers believe in God. As far as eye doctors, they know that the eye is irreducibly complex, to use the vocabulary of biochemist Michael Behe, author of Darwin's Black Box. This means the eye, like the cell, could not have evolved because it is too complex and would warrant instant existence in full instead of coming to be gradually over millions of years of evolution. Think of it this way: what good is a third of an eye? It has no use; rather, in order for it to function properly, it needs to be fully intact. Yes, it has to be created, and that is what God did.

The Bible tells us in Romans 1 that people are without excuse as far as believing in God. They have to work hard to obscure the most obvious facts of creation. "Because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them. 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" (Romans 1:19-20).

But I believe there are other things which point to the existence of God and are even more convincing than the created order we see around us: it is the parts of creation we do not see. For example, where do these realities come from unless they come from God: love, joy, peace, reason, contemplation, and I could list many others. There are classical arguments for the existence of God too, like the teleological and cosmological arguments (thanks to Thomas Aquinas), the ontological argument (thanks to Anselm and Descartes), and the moral argument (thanks to Immanuel Kant and C.S. Lewis). Where does oughtness, morals, and ethics originate? How could a mindless, purposeless, random thing like macro-evolution produce these amazing, intelligent, intangible realities? The obvious answer is, they could never have simply appeared. Like this computer I am using today, it could never have magically appeared; someone had to create it.

God is awesome. Take a moment right now and praise Him for His mighty works of creation!

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In this eighth part of his series on the Apostle Paul's letter to Titus and its application to us today (especially to men), Pastor Danny shares how having a mission is innately important to all men, how being on mission for Christ is an integral part of that, and what it means to truly live on mission for Christ.

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