People will wonder and question that if God is a person being, why isn’t he more obvious to us humans. I believe the greatest evidence that God is not only obvious, but a personal being, can be found in each of us. Creation as taught in the Holy Bible tells us that God made us with a mind that is self-aware and a heart with the ability to love. We have been created with a conscience that calls us to be morally responsible and a soul that longs for meaning and significance. Together, they become the essence of what humans were designed to be and quite frankly, the strongest evidence of a personal God.
To go further, let me share the following observations. Isn’t it interesting that the world around us is fully compatible to our physical longings and desires? We hunger and there is food. We thirst and there is water. We have sex drives and there is sex. The world created for humans amazingly provides for those natural drives within us. Isn’t it also interesting that humans instinctively assume that something like love is a reality? In many ways, love becomes the only ideal in our lives worth living and dying for. On the other hand, nature on a whole seems to be indifferent, loveless, and a brute process of colliding chemicals. Is our ideal for love within us just a case of reacting chemicals? And where do we obtain our moral convictions? Humans also instinctively hunger for meaning and purpose. We strive to fill our lives with significance. If the evolution of man based on natural progression is indifferent and purposeless, than all we are, all we do, all we believe in and strive for is simply dust that scatters in the wind. Everything becomes ultimately meaningless.
To me, there is something more powerful than sheer nature. To me, there is overwhelming evidence of a created environment that is ultimately personal. Not only does our world take care of all our personal needs, but humans have been created to be self-aware, rational, loving, moral and purposeful. God created a perfect environment that is in perfect sync with his ultimate creation, mankind. If we are determined to leave God out of the picture and our existence is solely based on human theory, then we must conclude that our existence becomes only a “freak of nature”, out of place, tortured and extremely painful. We become the product of a cruel, sick, cosmic joke. So, unless the ultimate source of all existence is at least as personal as we are, than who we are — our very being — is both unexplainable and extremely difficult to swallow.
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