“All they have eyes for is the fashionable god of darkness. They think he can give them what they want, and that they won’t have to bother believing a Truth they can’t see. They’re stone-blind to the dayspring brightness of the Message that shines with Christ, who gives us the best picture of God we’ll ever get.” (2 Corinthians 4:4, The Message).
Here at one of my favorite verses, Paul tells us that our best picture of God is found in Christ. Christ reveals God; he makes God personal. Do you want to understand God's compassion? Study Christ. Do you want to see God's heart revealed? Study Christ. You get the point.
The problem with men is that rather than study Christ all they have eyes for is the fashionable god of darkness. Such a telling point. Our God is not fashionable, indeed we might call him anti-fashionable, because he is always and ever going against the tide of the world. Satan is happy to be a fashionable god of darkness because his desire is to draw as many people as he can away from God; unfortunately, men are happy to follow him, all the while thinking that they are "free" and "independent."
The result? Men are stone-blind to the dayspring brightness of the Message that shines with Christ.
Don't be stone-blind. Open your eyes and see the character of God in Christ.
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