If you’re old enough, you know the song, “Signs,” by the Five Man Electrical Band.  We’ve come a long way since the “long-haired, freaky people” spoke out of intolerance and exclusivity that turned a distant, if-in-fact-a-real-God’s damning finger back on the conformists of the day.  That song was popularized in the 1970s.  People could relate to its theme then and again in the ‘90s when a few remakes surfaced.  Do you understand what made it so popular?  We really haven’t come that far, and that’s why its theme is likely to carry forward.

How Many Signs Do You Read While Driving?

Earlier this week I saw a sign.  It was a bumper sticker that read, “There is NO GOD.”  As I whizzed by the smart, accessorized Mini Cooper with its neatly kept professional at the wheel, “Arrogant,” exclaimed my mind.  There was another sign close at hand.  It read, “Speed Limit 70.” Was I too not being arrogant as I cruised by him at a judicious 78 miles an hour?

We have to see these signs in our physical world to gather the information they are trying to communicate.  If we fail to see a sign, does it mean the danger and/or consequences are not there?  No.  The hippie with his hair down wasn’t going to be employed by the establishment whether he saw the sign or not.  I will get the traffic ticket if I am noticed by a law enforcement officer regardless of my having spotted the traffic sign.  The agnostic or atheist will meet God, whether he believes in God or not.  Just pause a moment and be thankful that our God is not the establishment but a God who is full of mercy and grace.

A good part of the time we, as Christians, are walking around blind to the spiritual world.  Our lack of vision through God’s eyes can be because of busy-ness, an unresolved sin, or some other diversion.   It’s part of the ebb and flow of life.  God knows this about us; and so He has given us The Comforter and His Word to stay connected, as well as signs in the physical world to remind us of spiritual truths and promises.  Scripture talks about signs going all the way back to creation.

The agnostic/atheist dismisses these signs from a spiritual standpoint, saying there is a scientific explanation for this or that.  Well, they may be right, there may be a scientific explanation, but who put the scientific laws in place?  I submit the Creator did.  Would not the Creator use the Creator’s own creation for the Creator’s purposes?  To turn the worldly argument back on itself, did Henry Ford make a car but then not drive it for his own errands and travel plans?  That’s illogical.  I believe that as science continues to advance and unfold, we will find God’s truth at its core.  “Northwestern University physicist Adilson E. Motter conjectured that the expansion of the universe at the time of the big bang was highly chaotic.  Now he and a colleague have proven it using rigorous mathematical arguments.” Chaos, in its Greek form, refers to an emptiness, vast void, chasm, or abyss.  Could Genesis 1:2, and the creation story, not someday read as a fact to the biggest skeptics?  Does this particular version of chaos have to be the one that plays out for God’s word to be true?  No.  It will play out, though, and God’s word will be proven to be true.

The atheist says, “You cannot show me proof that God exists, so God does not exist.” The agnostic says, “Show me proof that God exists.”  In Romans 1:20, scripture says, “For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.”  The physical world that the agnostic and atheist live in is the very proof that there is a divine God.  They just refuse or are blind to the signs.

We, as Christians, see the signs and hold to the truth and promises of those signs. “So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal,” 2 Corinthians 4:18.

Ask God to give you eyes to see.  Take time to read our Creator’s divine signs.  Then, act accordingly.  Christians are the real counterculture, and we do need to know what the spiritual signs are saying.