The first line of this Psalm reminded me of a conversation I was having with a friend on the way to Provincetown Friday evening. "Only fools say in their hearts, 'There is no God.'”
In this particular conversation, the topic quickly turned to faith and sharing our moment of recognizing God for ourselves. For this friend, the experience had been while reading a physiology book and seeing the intricacies of the human body and recognizing that this level of intricacy required a higher power, more intelligent and powerful to create. The conversation moved to the patterns in nature and the the fact that we see the same patterns repeating. Creation isn't random, it is a series of intricate patters, many of which we weren't even able to recognize until the last century.
This does beg the question for me, if you don't believe in a creator that is greater than ourselves, how do you think all this came about. Do you think chance developed the intricacies and the patterns? I am at a loss for what other reasonable explanation there is. Therefore, there is truth in David's words.
I know intelligent design is more of a head argument that a spirit argument. I think it is important to understand all sides of the arguments for God because we are called to make disciples of all people and you need to be able to reach out to some one in the place that they are. So , if you are a person of the Spirit and haven't considered some of the logical arguments for God, I encourage you to do some research so that you might become a stronger tool for the Lord.
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