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The Devotional

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When a submarine or a cave goes dark, there is usually an emergency (battery) lighting that takes over, but there are times when even this light will be put out. The darkness then is beyond comprehension, the darkness is so thick you can feel it, very much like a heavy blanket covering you in a hot bedroom. Wanting desperately to throw it off and rid yourself of the unwanted feeling of discomfort. This is a description of physical darkness of the worst kind. Is there another darkness that we experience? Yes, but this darkness is not limited to miners and submariners every person is affected, or should I say infected with this darkness. It is referred in the Holy Bible as “spiritual darkness”, every day we wrestle with spiritual darkness and simply it would be foolish to deny its existence. Strangely those who deny the effects of spiritual darkness call it “enlightenment”. Therefore we must know what does this feel like, like the blanket of physical darkness, and if it is enlightenment then what does it look like?

Challenge: Romans 1:20-22

First let me say that “no one” can improve on the Word of God, the burden to revise the Words of the Bible is not the responsibility of any man and man can only teach or preach the things that God has already spoken. He has spoken by the prophets in times past in many and various ways and roughly two thousand years ago He spoke to us through His Son, the LORD Jesus Christ. The Son of God is the radiance of the Glory of God and the exact (or perfect) representation of God in human form. He is the sustainer of the universe and the world we live in and after He provided for “purification for sins” He rose from the dead and He sat down at the right hand of “Majesty in Heaven”, see Hebrews 1:1-4.

Does God get angry with the world He created, the answer is “NO” for God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life, John 3:16. If this being true then what does the apostle Paul mean when He says that the “wrath of God” is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, Romans 1:18?

Since Creation and the fall of mankind, God’s wrath is clearly revealed (in place) in His Perfect Character. His attributes which are invisible to the “enlightenment” or darkness of mankind through the fall are clearly visible by faith, thus these attributes can be clearly understood by the things make by Him in Creation. Even His eternal power and Godhead (His Divine nature or Deity). Since this is true those who practice enlightened darkness are without excuse.

Psalm 19:1-6 is the visible proof of God’s eternal power and Psalm 19:9-11 is the invisible proof of God’s attributes and those of us who believe God will find comfort, confidence and a conclusion to understanding that the wrath of God is revealed in order to bring man to the point of discerning his or her errors, confessing their sin, repenting from his and her hidden faults and by the grace of God be found blameless in this perverse generation. Those of us who come to faith in Jesus will see that no sin will have rule over them and death will not have victory over them either.

However, those who refuse to believe God and fail to glorify Him as God and those who are not thankful, will continue down the path of darkness (worldly enlightenment), their foolish heart professing to be wise will increasingly be foolish. How does this happen? They make or fashion the glory of God who is “incorruptible” into images that resemble corrupted man, perishable things like birds, four footed animals and creeping things. All of the things available to mankind on this planet are perishable including man, meaning all will die.

God is eternal and His Righteousness is available to anyone who will trust Him, Romans 10:4 – For Christ is the end of the law for Righteousness to everyone who believes.