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Dec 21, 2009, 12:14:17 AM12/21/09
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Devotional Guide For the Week of December 20, 2009
SIGNS
About God�s visibility
To Know:
��Everything exposed by the light becomes visible, for it is light that
makes everything visible.�� (Eph.5: 13)
They are on the increase who look at the house we call the universe and at
the highway in time we call history and see no sign of God. Many who teach
in colleges and universities promote atheism. One Oxford Don attained fame
by denouncing those that see the created order the sign of a creator as
delusional. �The God Delusion� is the writer� testimony that he has looked
at the visible order and seen no evidence of an invisible person who has
originated and ordered the cosmos. Richard Dawkins proudly boasts that his
ears do not hear nor do his eyes see evidence of a creator, far less a
redeemer.
If you were a creator who desired to signal your existence, could you devise
a better strategy than by calling forth a visible creation? God is
invisible. �No one has ever seen God, but God the One and Only, who is at
the Father�s side has made him known.� (Jn. 1:18) We know of nothing that
prohibits an invisible God from creating an invisible universe. If God is
invisible yet real, why could he not create a real universe that is also
invisible? If he did, there would be no visible signs of his presence and
power. Was it not to manifest himself that the original act of God was the
creation of visible light? The apostle Paul says, ��light makes everything
visible.� Is it not phenomenal that the human mind can see the �stuff� of
creation but not see the necessity of a creator?
Christ claimed to be the visible manifestation of the invisible God. Jesus
said, �Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father.� (Jn. 14:9) The apostle
John says of Jesus that if you see who he really is, you see the creator
himself. Of the Word become flesh, John wrote, �Through him all things were
made; without him nothing was made that has been made.� (Jn. 1:3) The
greatest gift ever given to us was when God made himself visible in Jesus
Christ.
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SIGNS
About God�s visibility
To Know:
��Everything exposed by the light becomes visible, for it is light that
makes everything visible.�� (Eph.5: 13)
They are on the increase who look at the house we call the universe and at
the highway in time we call history and see no sign of God. Many who teach
in colleges and universities promote atheism. One Oxford Don attained fame
by denouncing those that see the created order the sign of a creator as
delusional. �The God Delusion� is the writer� testimony that he has looked
at the visible order and seen no evidence of an invisible person who has
originated and ordered the cosmos. Richard Dawkins proudly boasts that his
ears do not hear nor do his eyes see evidence of a creator, far less a
redeemer.
If you were a creator who desired to signal your existence, could you devise
a better strategy than by calling forth a visible creation? God is
invisible. �No one has ever seen God, but God the One and Only, who is at
the Father�s side has made him known.� (Jn. 1:18) We know of nothing that
prohibits an invisible God from creating an invisible universe. If God is
invisible yet real, why could he not create a real universe that is also
invisible? If he did, there would be no visible signs of his presence and
power. Was it not to manifest himself that the original act of God was the
creation of visible light? The apostle Paul says, ��light makes everything
visible.� Is it not phenomenal that the human mind can see the �stuff� of
creation but not see the necessity of a creator?
Christ claimed to be the visible manifestation of the invisible God. Jesus
said, �Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father.� (Jn. 14:9) The apostle
John says of Jesus that if you see who he really is, you see the creator
himself. Of the Word become flesh, John wrote, �Through him all things were
made; without him nothing was made that has been made.� (Jn. 1:3) The
greatest gift ever given to us was when God made himself visible in Jesus
Christ.
12219$-12219
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