Finding The True God

Finding The True God

Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.

Romans 1:22–23

Human reason can’t quite identify God correctly. Reason knows that there is a God, but it can’t figure out which god is the true God. This is exactly what happened to the Jewish leaders while Christ was on earth. John the Baptist plainly told them that Christ was present. They knew that Christ was living among them and walking among the people. But they couldn’t tell which person it was. Hardly any of them could believe that Jesus of Nazareth was the Christ.

In a similar way, human reason plays “blindman’s bluff ” with God. Reason always makes foolish mistakes and keeps on missing the mark. It calls something god that isn’t really God and can’t quite identify the real God. If reason didn’t have any awareness of God’s existence, it wouldn’t attempt to identify God. If reason knew exactly who God was, it wouldn’t mistakenly identify something else as god. Reason just blurts out, calls something god, and gives divine honor to its own concept of god. By doing so, it misses the true God and instead finds the devil—or its own idea of god, which is ruled by the devil.

There’s a big difference between knowing there is a God who exists and knowing who that God is. All of creation teaches us that there is a God. This is already written on all of our hearts. But only the Holy Spirit can teach us who that God is.