Tuesday, June 21, 2011

without excuse (psalm 19:3-4b)

Psalm 19:3-4b
There is no speech, nor are there words, whose voice is not heard. Their voice goes out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world.

The thrust of these verses is that the "speech" of the universe telling us about the glory of God is everywhere and includes everyone. There is no one who has not heard this "voice". This idea is the key to the passage on idolatry in Romans 1:18-25
18 The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19 since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse. 21 For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. 2223 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles. 24 Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25 They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.  Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools

Let's listen to what the voice of creation tells us about the creator, instead of supressing the truth.

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