Today’s reading confronts us with a simple but devastating truth: the knowledge of God is not hidden, distant, or reserved for the educated—it presses in on us from every side, written into the heavens, the earth, and even our own bodies, leaving humanity without excuse for ingratitude or denial. John Calvin opens Book 1, Chapter 5 of the Institutes by insisting that God has made himself unmistakably known through creation, so that no one can open their eyes without encountering divine glory, wisdom, and power. Yet this same clarity exposes the perversity of the human heart, which suppresses what it knows by nature and substitutes pride, chance, or “nature” for the living God (Psalm 19:1; Romans 1:20; Acts 17:27–28). Augustine deepens this theme by turning inward, showing how the soul itself bears witness to God’s nearness even as it res ...