God Exists

God exists

“I have not seen the robin but I know he is there because I heard him singing through my window from the tree-top outside.
I have not seen God.  But I have looked at my child’s eyes, and have been overwhelmed by the miracle of unfolding life.
I have watched the trees bedeck themselves with new garbs of green in the spring, and have been stirred by the miracle of continual rebirth.
I have looked at the stars, and have been overcome by the miracle of the grandeur and majesty of the universe.
I know that God exists, because I have heard the song of His presence from all the tree-tops of creation.”
                     Ben Zion Bokser
I am a believer in God. For me knowing there is a God who loves me is simply comforting. Knowing there is a life with God after this life ends is what makes life worthwhile.
Atheism to my way of thinking takes away all meaning to life.
Peter John Kreeft states,
“Atheism is cheap on people through because it snobbishly says nine out of ten people through history have been wrong about God and have had a lie at the core of their hearts.”
Peter John Kreeft ph.d 
From as far back as we can see in history to the present day mankind has believed in a God and an afterlife. It just seems to be in man’s psyche.
People may deny there is a God and an afterlife but that does not make it so. C. S. Lewis wrote,
“A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.” 
                                                                             C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain.
Even if man evolved as some believe it doesn’t explain how man came up with his moral code.
One key pillar of our moral code, do not kill, had to have arisen simultaneously across every tribe on the face of the earth. Otherwise it would be a case that those who did not believe in the do not kill code of conduct would kill those who do. It would be survival of the fittest. The most violent society would survive.  Yet that is not the case.
Every culture that we know of has had a similar moral code. Such a code has to have come from God.
Abba Hillel Silver wrote,
“Faith in God is the strongest bulwark of a free society.  Human freedom began when men became conscious that over and above society and nature there is a God who created them...who fashioned them in His likeness, and that they are, therefore, possessed of intrinsic and independent significance and are endowed, as individuals, with original and irrevocable rights and authority.”
                   Abba Hillel Silver 
I do not buy into the theory that there is no God. That this life is all there is. For me my faith in God enriches my life and offers me the hope of eternal life and peace with God.
I know I will never be able to persuade the ardent atheist. I know there will always be men and women in the world that no matter the evidence will not believe. That is their choice.
I would however ask respectfully that they at least read the New Testament with an open mind and see what God has to offer them.