God Vs. the Universe
Let us begin with a simple, reasonable
question- can a created thing compete with the one who created it?
Can one whom draws
power and resource then turn to the donor from which he draws and boast of his own?
One is inanimate,
the other the source of life.
One, a reflection of
the genius and creativity of the artist, is a canvas by which the creator
garners glory and esteem.
“To God be the Glory,”
Indeed.
In more grounded terms, it would
seem preposterous (altogether fictional!) for a computer to outsmart the computer
scientist who programmed it. (Jingle Jangle, anyone?) It would seem laughable to
imagine a painting relishing in the praise of its beauty, with no regard for
the one who painted it.
And yet this is, it seems, the climate of
our current culture. We the created, the programmed, the fragile creation
rebel against our Creator. Even more outrageously, we, the created, have chosen
to replace the creator with another created object!
But this irrational tension, this reinforced
resistance between the truth and the lie, wrestles within the will of much of mankind!
And as a child biting the hand of the one who feeds them, we resist our Creator,
naively embracing fallacy instead. Less innocent and cherubic is the result- a sometimes
irrevocable separation from Him! Isaiah warns,
“
Woe unto him that
striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the
earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or
thy work, He hath no hands? Woe unto him that saith
unto his father, What begettest thou? or to the woman, What hast thou brought
forth? Thus saith the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, Ask me of things to come
concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands command ye me. I
have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched
out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded.” Isaiah 45:9
It seems, in plainest
terms, that we ought not wrestle with one as mighty as He!
And yet every day- with increasing fervor-
we, the created, muse in earshot of our creator that we have made ourselves. “Self-made,”
we like to boast.
We- who had absolutely
no control or choice in our existence, nor the way we were made- steal the glory
of His creative work and refuse to give him credit.
“A natural beauty,” or natural anything for that matter, ought
to give God praise!
A ‘gifted individual” ought to thank
the source!
But alas, we do not.
We thank ourselves, who took no part in the giving.
We worship
ourselves, we worship each other, and so God said it would be;
“Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served
the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.” Romans 1:25
But the
question of why remains glaring and pronounced, looming in the shadows of
righteous thinking.
Why
do such a foolish thing?
Isn’t it plain that we, as children, can
only earn merit in learning about what He has created, and are limited to create
only from what He has given? In absolute truth there is nothing new that we can
create, for everything we use was first given by him! It is only through that
which he has supplied that we fashion anything at all! As children building
with Legos, we build our lives and our world with his pieces.
The
obviousness of this point is not lost to serendipity, but the Bible states that
it IS obvious, because the truth of God’s power presents itself in undisputable
clarity!
Of those who were originally
rebellious, the Bible says it was not because they did not know God, but
because through vanity they decided that they would not glorify him as
God, and as a result their foolish hearts became darkened;
“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: Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God,
neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish
heart was darkened.”
–
Romans 1:20,21
As they continued down the twisted road of vanity, the Bible says that
“Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools.” Doesn’t
this sound accurate? For it is often those in glorified secular positions who
boldly refuse to call God, God.
Digging deeper still, there is a way that we
have about us, a way that not only desires to discredit God, but to ascribe His
glory to another deity. In vanity, we attribute anything- everything- to anyone
other than God.
Anything. A great
bang! Anything…a monkey!
As rabid and sick animals we seek to devour
our own Begetter.
He remains unaccredited in science for the
force and energy of the Universe that He created.
He remains
unmentioned in his history books, and HIStory they ban from schools.
He remains innominate in moments of great
success, an unmentionable and unsavory name of which no one will specifically
name. Originally, it was the name Jesus they refused to say, accepting a
more ubiquitous title of God, because, for all we knew it could be god.
But now, even his title, God, is unsavory. After all, god still has the
implication of God, and could easily be construed as such.
But now, universe. We thank the Universe.
There it is. Big enough to seem bigger than us, and yet not a God in the real
sense of the word. Big enough to include everyone, yet not tangible enough to
complicate our lives.
Universe. It allows
me to believe that I am still in control, and yet feign humility when I want to
convey spirituality.
But at its very core, this is very wicked.
For refusing to attribute all these things is not
only anti-Christ, but in truth, robbery. It is also foolish and the path to a reprobate
mind.
Continuing in Romans, we are warned that as
we continue down the path of self-glorification and soft atheism we will become
a slew of other things,
“…And
even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over
to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness,
covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity;
whisperers, Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful,
proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection,
implacable, unmerciful:Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit
such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in
them that do them.” – Romans 1:29
There it is- written in Holy script!
When
we remove God we remove the moral backbone, because He is righteousness.
Literally.
When we remove Jesus, we have nothing to
measure morality by. And as the bible woefully writes in the book of Judges,
“Every man will do (did) what was right in his own eyes”. We begin to judge
ourselves by ourselves, and “professing ourselves to be wise, we become fools.”
As our society moves deeper into rebellion
and fulfillment of the scriptures, the bottom line comes into focus- stomp
out God, so that we can do what we want! We desire to live according to the
lust of our flesh, and to do so condemnation free.
It is also from this point that we taste the
fruit of our choices.
As we push to overthrow the Biblically derived
justice system, we smell the first scents of lawlessness. Hopelessness, despair,
and depression rise as we stick out our hands to be handcuffed with the
shackles of perversion and iniquity. The babes of vanity will rise into raging beasts,
released on our own volition. The full consequences of rejecting Jesus Christ lurk
ahead.
In
the end, the Creator wins. Did we think it any different? In the end, God will take
back His glory. It will be his name, that name that they cursed and
swore by, that name which they made mockery of- Jesus- that will be
dominant, forefront, looming.
And at His name, all of His created things will
cease rebellion, and ALL will bow.
The next time you hear the foolish accredit
anything to the created universe, I pray that these words ring in your mind. For
you see, the devil doesn’t care who you bow to, albeit cat, a statue, the
universe, or your own self. As long as it isn’t God.
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