The Verdict

         We sometimes hear the phrase, “Seeing is believing.” We recently celebrated the landing on the moon some 50 years ago. There were some however, who said that it was all fake and that they were just filming something happening out in the desert in the Western part of the country and just made it look like it was real and that they had not gone to the moon at all. They say it and still did not believe it but came up with a story to explain their own disbelief. Television made it possible for the whole world to see it at the same time. I saw a couple of years ago that the Japanese had made watermelons square so they would fit better in the refrigerator. They forced them to mature in a wooden frame that made them grow in the shape of the frame. You could stack the watermelons up on top of each other. Yes, seeing is believing. Some people see and still don't believe just as the people who saw the landing on the moon and still didn't believe it. Romans 1:19-20 says, “Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:” 

       God has given us a mind that can choose and one that can make a deduction when confronted with certain events. You can look at things that are big and you can look at things that are small and the only deduction that you can see after looking at the evidence, that there is a God and that He is real, and He is alive and He is the Creator of everything that exists. You can look at the smallest living organism and the complex design of DNA and have to come up with the conclusion that it was all designed by God. Flagella motors are interesting things in each cell of the human body. This small motor has all of the parts of an electrical motor, even a rotor and a propeller and moves about inside of a cell. The deduction of the seeing the motor and the activity it does in the cell declares the evidence of a Creator and that Creator is God Himself. Job was having a discussion with God and God finally told him to be quiet and listen and then proceeded to give Job the evidence from the planet earth to the far reaches of the universe. As the passage says, every person, every man, woman, boy and girl is without excuse. Every person has the capacity to evaluate the evidence that is before them and all of us have received the same evidence. It is all around us and yet many people refuse to accept the evidence that is before them. Whose fault is it that they do not believe? If I evaluate the evidence before me and still refuse to believe the result of the evidence, I am like the one who refused to believe that the astronauts actually landed on the moon but were out in the desert in some remote area of the country. It is evidence for the unbeliever. The natural revelations of the universe are evidence for the unbeliever that God is there, that He is real and that He is in charge of the universe. This same evidence is a blessing to the believer as it substantiates his or her belief in God. Every flower, every bug, every picture in the sunset and sunrise, every star, every storm all give testimony of God. God has given us all the evidence and the verdict of the evidence is, God is the Creator of the universe and everything that is in it. So praise God today as you look out from wherever you are, inside or outside, dark or light and see God's handiwork.