God Has Already Revealed Himself

"Wisdom is in the sight of him who has understanding, but the eyes of a fool are on the ends of the earth."

Proverbs 17:24

The book of Proverbs is packed with verses which compare and contrast wise and foolish.  Jesus said a wise man hears His words and puts them into practice, but the foolish man hears His words and ignores them.  A fool says in his heart, "There is not God" and lives accordingly - as if he is god.  According to the biblical description, a wise man is one who has humbled himself before God and has chosen to adopt His ways.  He is circumspect, conscious of God's sovereignty, provision, and love.  He seeks, heeds, and obeys God's guidance.  A fool may be wise in the wisdom of the world, but it is foundation of shifting sand.  Jesus said those who build upon man's "wisdom" embrace certain destruction.

Once a person is born again through the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit takes up residence inside them.  An inner transformation takes place which opens up man's understanding to receive and apply spiritual truth.  God's wisdom is revealed in everything He has made.  The Bible is a treasury of God's wisdom.  Those who are in Christ have had the bonds of sin and unbelief broken, the fog cleared from their minds, and their eyes opened to the reality of God and eternity.  Those of understanding do not know everything, but they are convinced God has spoken, is speaking, and is the true source of all wisdom.  Our identity as a new creation is in Christ, for the old has passed away and all has become new.

A fool, having rejected the Word of God, is on a never-ending search for truth, purpose, and satisfaction.  The eyes of those who know not God look to the ends of the earth seeking greater understanding.  Some lift their eyes even higher and monitor sound in space, hoping to discover the secrets of our origins from unknown extra-terrestrial beings when the first sentence of the Bible expressly, objectively states the truth!  Genesis 1:1 says, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."  Those who reject that statement must keep looking for alternatives.  The unseeing eyes of unbelievers scan distant horizons when God has revealed Himself already!  For instance, the SETI (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) institute has been “listening,” scanning the far reaches of space for decades with telescopes and high-powered aerials, seeking to receive communication from extra-terrestrial aliens.  Foolish man scans the dark void of space hoping to discover intelligent beings out there, whilst the eternal God who created all things has given us His Word, became a man, and spoke to us as a man in Jesus Christ who walked among us.  Ironic, isn’t it?  The intelligence of God is revealed in the designs in creation right here on earth, even by DNA and complex processes within the cells of our human bodies - yet for most these days that is not admissible evidence of an intelligent Creator.  More time is spent by some theorising on how we will deal with aliens we might encounter than how to rightly relate  and respond to the God who created all things, loves us and has already revealed Himself to us.

I am in no way suggesting there is not value in scientific exploration, or that such efforts have not been worthwhile.  The fact is, men have been listening for "pings" in space since 1959 and have not perceived anything that qualifies as scientific proof of intelligent extra-terrestrial beings.  God has already provided us with more than faint unintelligible pings, hissing gibberish, or mechanical whirring.  God's Word says in Psalm 19:1-3, "The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament shows His handiwork. ² Day unto day utters speech, and night unto night reveals knowledge. ³ There is no speech nor language where their voice is not heard."  Talk about seeing but not perceiving!  We can be looking and listening in a vacuum when God has already revealed Himself, has spoken, and is speaking.  Both simple folks and those with multiple doctorates marvel over the beauty and order in the cosmos.  The well-educated scientific researcher researches because he or she realises there is much still to be learned.  Instead of fields of research being exhausted, more and more potential areas of research could be pioneered with exciting new discoveries being made all the time.  The more we know the more we discover there is more to know than we ever imagined.  Scientific study and research teaches the believing more of the Creator and enlightens us to His phenomenal creativity, power, and beauty.

Jesus Christ has become for us wisdom, and those with eyes to see and ears to hear will believe and understand.  Through God common fishermen confounded the doctors of the Law of Moses, and the humble Son of a carpenter put to silence the questions of unbelieving lawyers.  Simple plants, animals, and insects defy any naturalistic explanation.  Single-celled organisms, more efficient than engines - which are actually crude in comparison even after decades of development by experts - continue to reproduce after their own kind.  As it is written in 1 Corinthians 1:26-31:  "For you see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called. ²⁷ But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty; ²⁸ and the base things of the world and the things which are despised God has chosen, and the things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are, ²⁹ that no flesh should glory in His presence. ³⁰ But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God--and righteousness and sanctification and redemption-- ³¹ that, as it is written, "He who glories, let him glory in the LORD."