Only Wise God

To the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, be the glory forever. Amen.

Romans 16:27 (NASB)

In Isaiah 44:6 the LORD, the King of Israel declares, “I am the First and I am the Last; Besides Me there is no God.” Two verses later He adds, “You are My witnesses” meaning that if people would only open their eyes, this truth would be self-evident.

The prophet then focuses on the foolishness of man-made gods “Those who make an image, all of them are useless, And their precious things shall not profit; They are their own witnesses” (Isaiah 44:9). People try to put themselves or the things they love in place of the True God. They woefully fail. If they were being honest with themselves, they would see that too.

But the general population is too proud and self-absorbed to admit that they have created for themselves a pantheon of false gods and they deny the one and only wise God.

 One of these fabricated deities is “Mother Nature.” A number of years ago I visited a science museum that had an exhibit titled “Mother Nature is the Greatest Engineer.” It showed the "intricate and remarkable designs of Mother Nature" and man’s attempts to copy “her” breakthroughs in engineering. They said “she” perfected her blueprints over 4.5 Billion years and now scientists can learn from “her achievements.”

There is even a new branch of science called Biomimicry in which researchers do reverse engineering to see what makes plants and animals able to do the marvelous things they do. Since God never patented his creation, people feel free to steal His design and then credit Mother Nature or the blind forces of evolution for the wonders of the living world.

It makes no sense that random mixing of chemicals could produce any life, but it does prove what God said: “Professing to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man --- and birds and four-footed animals and creeping things” (Romans 1:22-23).

Jesus Christ is our Great Creator (Colossians 1:16-17) and the Only Wise God.