Straight Thinking 100167 the Unseen God
Straight Thinking
100167
THE UNSEEN GOD
Sunday. The most obvious things are not always the easiest to see. Did you ever look at a road map and finally discover that the name you were searching for was spelled in the largest letters on the map? The most certain fact ever known is that God exists; once people come to believe in God, they can’t imagine how they ever didn’t. (Read Luke 24:13-32)
Monday. “No one has ever seen God.” We believe in the invisible things of the physical realm; we can also accept by faith the spiritual God we cannot see. Our faith is reasonable because we realize that everything in the limitless universe originally had to come from something of sufficient power to produce it. (Read 1 John 4:12.)
Tuesday. “Fools say in their heart, ‘There’s no God.’” Your science instructor might be offended if you said his house looked like no one had designed it. Yet that same teacher may stand before you in a classroom and conjecture that the heavens and earth just happened somehow or other. How fool-ish to reject God as the only rational explanation of the whole present order of things! Intelligence is the father of design; chance is the author of confusion. (Read Psalm 14:1.)
Wednesday. From the minute complexity of the one-called euglena to the host of vast solar systems, there is an orderliness that implies a purpose in it all. Pattern signifies purpose. God has a plan in everything he has designed including us. We fulfill our purpose of being “to the praise of his glorious grace.” (Read Ephesians 1:3-12.)
Thursday. The heavens declare the glory of their Creator. The writers of some textbooks insult our intelligence by asking us to believe that the magnificent earth and sky is the handiwork of chance. A lovely painting does not come from an accidental spattering of color; neither did the star-spangled heavens come except by the intent and genius of the Artist. (Read Psalm 19:1-2.)
Friday. We believe the unseen on the basis of the seen. The visible material universe enables us to see that the invisible God exists, that he is powerful, intelligent, infinite in glory, and has a purpose in his creation. But only the Bible reveals what that purpose is, how we fit into it, and what we need to do to fulfill our intended role. (Read Ephesians 1:13-14.)
Saturday. We don’t see God now, but we know him. We can learn about him in his word, even though finite people cannot understand infinite God. No one has seen God yet, because he is a spirit; but when we leave the physical body, we will see him as he is because we’ll have a spiritual body like his. (Read 1 John 3:2.)
Virgil Warren, Straight, October 1, 1967, p7 christir.org