Indisputable Evidence

In the gnome village
Big Oak, Coosa River Farm

"But God's angry displeasure erupts as acts of human mistrust and wrong doing and lying accumulate, as people try to put a shroud over truth. But the basic reality of God is plain enough. Open your eyes and there it is! By taking a long and thoughtful look at what God has created, people have always been able to see what their eyes can't see: eternal power, for instance, and the mystery of His divine being. So nobody has a good excuse. What happened was this: People knew God perfectly well, but when they didn't treat Him like God, refusing to worship Him, they trivialized themselves into silliness and confusion so that there was neither sense nor direction left in their lives. They pretended to know it all, but were illiterate regarding life. They traded the glory of God who holds the world in His hands for cheap figurines you can buy at any roadside stand." (Romans 1:18-23 The Message)

A couple of years ago (compliments of Granddaddy), glass gnomes moved into the big oak's nooks and crannies at the Coosa River farm; and Doc gnome, the village chief and local doctor, set up practice in a high knothole.

In the dark of the nights since, it appears the little people tool through the woods in the pink, Barbie mobile or LeapFrog school bus or bi-wing airplane or remote control racer (also compliments of Granddaddy). 

No eyewitnesses, mind you. Just the indisputable evidence of rearranged toys the next daylight.

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In the profound book of Romans, the Apostle Paul warns people without God that because of the indisputable evidence of Him all around us, they are without excuse. 

On Romans, Dr. Henrietta Mears wrote, "The first three chapters describe the hell of sin. The last five chapters describe the heaven of holiness. Intervening chapters describe Christ, the Way." 

Know people without God, beloved? Point them down the Roman Road to Jesus Christ and heaven:


"For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God." (Romans 3:23)

"But God demonstrated His love toward us, in that, while we were sinners, Christ died for us." (Romans 5:8)

"For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord." (Romans 6:23)

"If you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For  with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. (Romans 10:9-10)

"For whoever calls on the name of the LORD shall be saved." (Romans 10:13)

"For of Him and through Him and to Him are all things, to whom be glory forever. Amen." (Romans 11:36