“HIS INVISIBLE ATTRIBUTES!”

Romans 1:18-25                                    (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 (Colossians 1:16) 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.

24 Therefore GOD GAVE THEM UP in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies AMONG THEMSELVES,

25 because they EXCHANGED the TRUTH about GOD for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the CREATOR, WHO is blessed forever! AMEN.”

This quote was on a social media site recently, and sadness quickly enveloped me!  “I was talking to a co-worker today. He's very intelligent, well spoken, well-liked & is successful in everything he does.”  One translation of Genesis 3:1 says that the serpent was “sneakier” than any other of the wild animals that GOD had made!  GOD made the serpent, but he thought he was smart enough to be god himself!  GOD has no equal (Isaiah 45:5-6) and HE has no competition.  HE ALONE is worthy of our Praise (Deuteronomy 10:21) and it is high time HIS Creation admits that!!!

But humans are a people who seem to have a necessity to prove something true with facts.  We want undeniable proof that there is a GOD, and that HE has the POWER that HE claims.  While studying a book that our church is reading, the word “IMPERIUM” was introduced to my vocabulary.  According to the dictionary, IMPERIUM is defined as “supreme power; superpower”!  What most of “this world” desires to see is a god that will give them what THEY WANT, even when we don’t know what is best for us!  As long as we are satisfied, everything is fine....WITH US.  As long as our selfish desires are met, we aren’t worried about the rest of Creation?  As long as everything WE are touching is going as we think it should, we are fine with famine and torture in other places on earth!?!

Folks, WE ARE NOT GOD, no matter what we believe or how supreme we act!  No King, no President, no magistrate, no billionaire, potentate, nor any other human has IMPERIUM.  Until we recognize that we are subject to a HIGHER BEING, an IMPERIUM, we will not be able to SEE ourselves in the roles we were Created to fulfill.  GOD ALONE should be EXALTED by anyone and until we recognize that we will continue to live in the natural state of existence, not the Victorious SPIRITUAL!  

We cannot live in a condition that we were not Created for.  We must CEASE being a people “...who by their unrighteousness SUPPRESS the TRUTH” and accept that GOD and “HIS INVISIBLE ATTRIBUTES” are alive and active in ALL OF CREATION!  Whether we are living above or below what we were Created for, we are not pleasing our CREATOR!  If and when we get a glimpse of “HIS INVISIBLE ATTRIBUTES”, we will finally be able to SEE what HE is able to do in, and through, our lives.  “HIS INVISIBLE ATTRIBUTES” are just as real as the air we breath, we just have to BELIEVE!!!