God is real!

As I flew out of San Diego yesterday, I watched the city lights twinkle through the window of the small plane.  It occurred to me that it would be foolish to deny the existance of human life.  Lights in a contiunous grid pattern filled the darkened landscape below.  I could make out a small baseball diamond, an illuminated rectangular pool, and cars crept through the highway like blood cells flowing in a vein.  In the Pirate's of the Carribean ride at Disneyland I always loved the skeleton who drank the wine that could be seen flowing through the rib cage.  The L.A. traffic looked like that, shimmering far below in a continual stream.

Every window is fitted with a plastic cover that can be pulled down to block out the sight below.  In talking to a friend today, I learned the position of the Australian government is athiestic.  Let's say I told my fellow passenger, "Look at all the electric lights down there."  He promptly closes the window and says, "How can you know those are lights?"  Well, I've seen lights before, I've turned them on, I've changed bulbs, tubes, and mercury vapor and halides...I know an electric light when I see one.  In my opinion, it takes no faith whatsover to believe that I saw lights out the window the opposite direction of stars.  It takes the deductive power of a two year old child to make that simple conclusion.

I do not believe it takes any faith whatsover to believe that God exists.  I think it is even more remedial than the concept posed by Ray Comfort is all is required is to "have eyes that see and a brain that works."  A man would never come upon cave drawings or paintings and think that the clear representation of hunter and prey were the cause of millions of years of erosion and lime.  What diver would believe that a wrecked ship near a reef was the evidence of driftwood joining itself together?  No one could ever step foot into a plane believing that there was no engineering involved in the design and it is the product of random chance.  When I start thinking about how the human body forms in the womb with all bones, skin, glands, hair, organs, taste buds, bone marrow, brain, vascular, reproductive, and respiratory systems I know it is far beyond man to comprehend.

Man has learned to "harness" the power of wind, but man cannot create wind from nothing.  We can create mechanical means to fan ourselves or condition the air of a house, but we must use copper, steel, wires, coils, refrigerant, and electricity to do it.  Benjamin Franklin "discovers" electricity with his kite and key and is hailed as a hero, and Thomas Edison invents the incandesent light bulb harnessing electricity and every child at school is taught of him.  The grand irony and tragedy of all this is God, the Creator of electricity and all things, is ignored and seen as irrelevant.  Schools and governments alike try in vain to cover up every evidence of God and focus on the exploits of man who uses what God has given Him.  We worship the creature over the Creator.  All we have to do is open our eyes and God's glory is seen!

Even if every window in the airplane was shut, it wouldn't change the reality of the lights far below.  The world can make athiestic claims right until the Day of Judgment.  No system ever formed itself.  No building ever built itself.  No pastry ever baked itself.  No book ever wrote itself.  No painting ever painted itself, and no man ever made himself!  Yet there are those who say the world made itself by accident, along with the life and ecosystems in it.  I would be a fool for believing that!  The earth was made with the ability to support life God created.  Life has never come from non-life.  Anyone who thinks otherwise is no different than the alchemists of the middle ages who tried to make gold from non-gold through chemical means.  What they learned by failure we know scientifically as fact, that gold and silver are basic elements and are not reducible.

Life is the most basic element of God's handiwork.  Jesus came that we might have abundant life through Him.  Man has the ability to make beautiful things, like lights spread out like a glimmering carpet underneath the plane.  But the heavenly lights and stars that God spoke into existence have been around since the beginning of creation, and will remain long after my body turns to dust.  He is the eternal God, the mighty Creator of the heavens and earth.  He is my God, and I will shine eternally for His glory by His grace.