Parents have taken elaborate steps to see that their children believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and in some extreme cases, leprechauns (I’m Irish and it is a very long story). In essence, we have done the same thing with the stories of the Bible and with the record of our God. Is God the greatest hoax in human history or does he in fact exist? Have all the religious leaders gone to great lengths to keep the belief alive or do they really believe all that stuff?
Maybe you fall into one of these categories of belief in God. Let’s just think about it for a minute.
I am God. Maybe this is a stretch, but it is certainly an option. You may think you’re at the center of the universe and in control of all that happens. Unless you’re like Jim Carrey’s character in the movie, Bruce Almighty, where God gives Carrey’s character the ability to be God for a short time, you’ll soon realize there is very little you can control. Sorry to disappoint, but you are not God.
There is no God. If you claim this, you’re called and atheist. You believe everything has occurred by accident and that there is no higher Someone who is in control. The word secular is also born out of this thought that all things are separate from the thought of a God running everything. Bette Midler’s song “From a Distance” shares the thought that God is out there just letting the world do it’s own thing and everyone in it.
There is a God. Logically the term is theist, a person who believes that God exists. A pure theist believes God interacts with his creation and is involved with them personally.
Hebrews 11:6 says this “And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him”
I have a friend from high school that was adopted. He has searched for 30 years for his birth parents and spent tens of thousands of dollars trying to learn of his beginning .What traits, talents and history did they have? What did they do for a living? Did they have any weird diseases? Stuff like that. One of the seven great stories of literature is the thought of coming home. Something in each of us wants to find our home, the place where we belong and our life is complete.
Where ever you might be in the above chart, are we really more than just protoplasm that came together by accident or really guided by a loving heavenly Father? You have already formulated an idea about God.
What kind of theist would you call yourself?
Read Psalm 139: 7-12 How did David feel about God?
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Earlier tonight I had the pleasure of spending some time with my grandchildren. My granddaughter at one point was bouncing on a cushioned chair and was jumping from the chair into my arms without fear or reservation. She felt safe because she had tested this death-defying feat many times in the past. Her past experiences provided the assurance that she would be safe and I would catch her. To know this she had to push herself to make the first jump, with every new jump comes more confidence. To know God is to experience Him, to experience Him we must trust Him. My take on God is when you make that first jump you’ll know He’s real.
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