“We all wonder.”
The bold white letters against the black background make a big statement. Maybe you’ve seen the billboards or web banners for the Explore God website. The ministry addresses the fundamental questions most of us have about God, the Bible, and the Christian life.
The other day, while boarding the train heading home from Chicago, I bumped into one of those very ads as I hiked up the steps into the passenger car. Except, just underneath the message, “We all wonder,” someone had scratched in the rebuttal, “No we don’t.”
And there it was—the argument of the ages.
The smugness of that reply made me a bit queasy. Such an arrogance—”No we don’t (wonder).”
Actually, that graffiti artist probably speaks for a lot of people in our culture. Though God has left us plenty of evidence—what theologians call general revelation—many do not wonder.
Ecclesiastes 3:11 proclaims God “has planted eternity in the human heart.” And Psalms 19:11 trumpets the reality that “The heavens declare the glory of God. The skies proclaim the work of His hands.” Then there’s Romans 1:19 which declares, “That which is known about God is evident.”
Those who choose not to wonder about God do nothing to subtract from the insurmountable evidence that He exists. And the path they are on leads to horrific disaster.
Do YOU wonder?
The fool has said in his heart, ‘There is no God.’
—Psalms 14:1