"HIS INVISIBLE ATTRIBUTES!"

Romans 1:18-23                             (ESV)
"18 For the wrath of GOD is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth.
19 For what can be known about GOD is plain to them, because GOD has shown it to them.
20 For "HIS INVISIBLE ATTRIBUTES", namely, HIS eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.
21 For although they knew GOD, they did not honor HIM as GOD or give thanks to HIM, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.
22 Claiming to be wise, they became fools,
23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal GOD for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things."



I'm sure there have been individuals who have existed who CLAIM to have never heard from GOD.  Their lives may have been lived in such a frenzy that they never consider the weightier things of life.  The enemy (the great deceiver) attempts to keep things moving at a pace where IT SEEMS we never have time for the things of GOD, but we always have time for our favorite football game, or concert, or anything else where satan isn't offering resistance?

The things of GOD are INVISIBLE (v. 20; Colossians 1:15) so it can be quite easy to look past them.   A few years ago my wife and I were blessed to visit the Grand Canyon.   We spent the better part of the day looking at a huge whole in the ground!  But when you consider that many years ago our CREATOR spoke and everything that was CREATED was!  The Grand Canyon, with all of its grandeur and awesomeness, was developed by GOD, like a painting by an artist.  When I began to look at the Grand Canyon as GOD's Masterpiece, I began to have a new appreciation for it.  When HE "reveals" HIMSELF, or HIS handiwork to us, it is never forgotten!

When we slow down from the rat-race mentality that "this world" attempts to have us operate in, the things of GOD will become PLAIN to us (v. 19), for GOD has shown them to us.   When we remain in the feverish pace of "successful people" we claim to be wise, but become fools!  GOD has no fellowship with the things of "this world" (1 John 2:15; James 4:4) and I DON'T WANT TO BE OUT OF FELLOWSHIP WITH GOD!

Sure, there are those who choose to live in the speed obsessed world.  But the things of GOD are REVEALED to those who "search after HIM with all your heart and with all your soul" (Deuteronomy 4:29)!  Don't get caught up with the "need for speed" mindset that "this world" tries to sell us.  Slow down and see "HIS INVISIBLE ATTRIBUTES" and HE will bless you for it!!