It is miraculous that man can know anything right and true about God. It is a deep, inscrutable grace that there be any flicker of apprehension in the heart of man that there is an Ultimate Reality and that that Ultimate Reality is outside of man himself. It is a wonder that God put even the capacity of such flickering in man. Although the sense is flawed and tainted, God has imprinted humanity with the truth that He is there and that He is to be known and worshiped.

Paul tells us that the knowledge of God is plain and that the evidences of His Being are clearly understood in the things made by Him that are all around us (Rom 1:19-20). The conscience of man bears witness to some inner law that has been engraved into his person (2:15).

But in our falleness, we have turned the slightest apprehension into a god of our own choosing. We have all turned from the true God to that which is not God (Rom 1:21-23). This is the story of humanity and it is our story…