Seeing Is Believing

“Since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.”  Romans 1:20

Evidence of God is everywhere—if only we will open our eyes.  Without pause or qualm, creation brashly proclaims that God exists and He’s involved.  In the mega and the minute, His signature is bold and beautiful.  Pictures from powerful telescopes reveal the vastness and grandeur of massive, far-flung, ever-growing galaxies, and in our own tiny, distinct double-twisting code of life, the abundance of “junk DNA,” considered by many as proof of a messy evolution, was recently discovered to be a complex system of switches which controls our genes.

 “Since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse”(Romans 1:20).  This verse plainly states that if someone believes God isn’t, he isn’t looking, but what about those of us who believe God is?  Are we looking?  And if we are, what do we see? 

We see a blazing sun set at just the right distance from earth’s orbit so that it provides warmth and energy without harm.  We see a shadowed moon reflecting light and affecting tides—its phases an unerring marker of time gone by.  We see twinkling stars tracking a path through the night—a guide for those on land and sea.   In these “heavens which declare the glory of God and skies which proclaim the work of his hands”(Ps 19:1), we sense God’s purpose and His precision. 

And earth shows the same.  The perfectly round hole bored by a woodpecker displays God’s exactness.  A dew-frosted spider’s web shimmers with His symmetry.  The teamwork of an ant colony reflects His unity.  A flower surrendering its nectar to the hummingbird’s kiss mirrors His sweet provision.   The red of a poppy, the stripes of a tiger, and the turquoise splashed on a peacock’s fan declare that our God is not a dull deity but is vibrant and expressive.  He is diverse.  He is dazzling.  He is gorgeous.

Atheists have no excuse for unbelief, and Christians have no excuse for small belief.  God has revealed Himself in His Word, but He has also revealed Himself in His world.

Open your eyes and see.  And say, “Wow!”