God Has Shown It to Them

When the heavens and the earth were created, light drove back the formlessness, the emptiness and the darkness. God commanded Adam not to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, yet Adam and Eve gave way to Satan’s temptation and broke that command. Ashamed of their nakedness, they then hid from God.

A heart that refuses the light remains captive to confusion, emptiness and darkness. What may be known about God is already within people, but once gratitude is lost, the pleasures of the flesh and idols move in to take its place. Just as Adam laid the blame for his own wrongdoing on Eve, people find fault with the work, the spouse and the health God has given them, and so evade their own responsibility.

Even those who deny God are without excuse, for what may be known about him is plainly displayed in all that he has made. We must therefore not forsake his love or suppress the truth, but love the light all the more and live lives of thanksgiving.