The context of Romans 1:20 is simply that man is without excuse because God has revealed Himself through creation. Apologetically, this is what is known as the Cosmological Argument--that God was the first cause. In layman's terms, it is like one of our youth said just yesterday: "The evidence of God is seen in the fact that we are here." That is, that there is something rather than nothing.
For the last few days, I have noticed that the world has been a more colorful place. I noticed that the trees outside the church changed from boring brown branches to white buds, that the dry bushes surrounding my neighbor's houses turned from faint observations into vivid purple pictorializations, and that the grass in my backyard advanced from a dim yellow, and short, enclosure into a growing, green, needing-to-be-mowed field. All of this told me two things: First, Spring has, at least unofficially, arrived and second, God is communicating through His creation.
I find it fascinating that so much Scripture communicates Godly principles through earthly terminology. For example, my favorite verse, Habakkuk 2:14, says, "For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea." Habakkuk utilizes the objects of water and sea to illustrate how God's knowledge will fill the earth. Because we know what waters and the sea look like, this illustration gives us the ability to wrap our minds around the idea of how God's existence will be manifested. Further, because we know that the sea is only covered in water (that the definition of sea is literally a "body of water"), we can comprehend how God will fill the earth with the knowledge of His existence.
Not only are we privileged to live in a beautiful world, but we can see God moving in it, and communicating to us through it.
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