13 GHOSTS AND THE GOSPEL
September 7
They do not know, nor do they understand, for He has smeared over their eyes so that they cannot see and their hearts so that they will have no insight. Isaiah 44:18
An old horror movie came out when I was a kid called 13 Ghosts. I remember really wanting to see it because it was one of the first 3-D movies ever made, and you had to watch it with special glasses on, or you couldn’t see the ghosts. The glasses were the gimmick that made the movie work. Without them, you couldn’t enjoy the real scare.
Here in South Bend, a new dinosaur museum just opened. It is well done, educational, and highly documented, being put together by some people who are experienced paleontologists. They wear the “special goggles” that allow them to be scared into believing in ape-men and billions-of-years evolution. The light of the Creator blinded them into seeing the world on a screen of pseudo-science and the impossibility of upwards genetic mutations.
They don’t mean to be deceitful. They are a nice couple and have done a lot for South Bend with another company that they own. But they miss much of the world, and the power and plan of God Almighty, by seeing everything through those tainted lenses that repute the Divine Creator.
God is seen as Creator from Genesis to Revelation, and to miss this aspect of His being in the world and in the Word is like never taking off those movie goggles. It’s a lot scarier ride than the real truth.
Davy L. Troxel