God's Revelation of Himself
Pastor Cornelius R. Stam
Romans
1:18-20 declares that God has revealed Himself to man in creation. Not that we
can learn His plan of salvation from creation — far from it. But the creation:
the glory of its star-studded heavens, the beauty of its flowers and sunsets,
the sun and rain and crops to supply us with food, and the unchangeable laws of
nature, all show forth, not only the existence of God, but His power, His love,
His justice, so that man is a responsible being and, as Verse 20 says, “without
excuse” for the deplorable condition in which he finds himself.
A
believer, talking with an atheistic evolutionist one day, took out his watch,
looked at it and put it back into his pocket, saying: “I have a wonderful
watch; it keeps perfect time; never misses a second.”
“What make is it?” the atheist asked.
“Oh, no make,” answered the Christian.
“Well, who manufactured it?”
“Oh, nobody; it just put itself together somehow.”
“Nonsense,”
said the atheist, “A watch can’t just come into existence. Somebody had to
design it and somebody had to manufacture it.”
“True,”
said the Christian, “yet you expect me to believe that this universe, with its
billions of stars and planets, all working together in perfect order, just came
about by itself; that it had no Designer, no Creator and no one who keeps it
running? Isn’t that nonsense?”
No
wonder Paul says that the godless are “without excuse,” including even the vast
majority of “religious” people, who salve their consciences by giving a small
part of each week or each day to the performance of some religious rite but
keep God out of their businesses, their politics, their social relationships —
their hearts.
But
thank God, as He has revealed His power and glory in creation, He has revealed
His mercy and grace, His plan of salvation, in the Bible, where we read how
“Christ died for our sins” (I Corinthians 15:3), so that we might have “redemption
through His blood, the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of His
grace” (Ephesians 1:7).
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