The Question

The Question

“The great question of our time is, 'Will we be motivated by materialistic philosophy or by spiritual power?'”
Billy Graham
Most people especially here in the west have a hard time understanding what they can’t see, hear or touch. As a result they dismiss the spiritual dimension of life. It’s hard to have faith in something one can’t see.
The writer of Hebrews defines faith as,
“Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.” 
                                                                                                                           Hebrews 11:1.
Scientist I believe come closest to Christians when it comes to faith. They look at the evidence around them and make their theories.
They believe from the best evidence they have before them their theory is correct, and start to make an experiment that will prove it. They are if you will, sure of what they hope for, and certain of what they do not see.
As a Christian I look at the world around me in all it’s mathematical perfection and see the hand of a creator God.
The Psalmist wrote,
“The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.” 
                                                                                                                               Psalm 19:1.
The way I see things is that everything on this earth came together to support mankind. I doesn’t matter to me whether God created the earth in six twenty-four hour days or using the big bang over billions of years.
What I believe is God created it. That there is life after death and that it is your actions in this world that will decide as to where you will spend eternity.
I cannot believe this world is all there is. If so what a waste of people.
I also see that the majority of the world population throughout history has believed in an after life. It indicates to me that deep down in the soul of every person there is something that says life goes on after death.
It is something sadly many people fail to acknowledge in our so called enlightened day and age.
People in the twenty-first century, especially here in the west have turned away from God for a myriad of reasons and are now worshipping at the alter of materialism.
They are saying in effect, “ This is all there is. So in the end it’s the one with the most toys wins.”
The thing is in the end you don’t take ‘the toys’ with you.”
The writer of Ecclesiastes
“What does the worker gain from his toil?  
I have seen the burden God has laid on men.  
He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end.  
I know that there is nothing better for men than to be happy and do good while they live.  
That everyone may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all his toil—this is the gift of God.  
I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that men will revere him. 
Whatever is has already been, and what will be has been before; and God will call the past to account. 
And I saw something else under the sun: In the place of judgment—wickedness was there, in the place of justice—wickedness was there. 
I thought in my heart, “God will bring to judgment both the righteous and the wicked, for there will be a time for every activity, a time for every deed.” 
                                                                  Ecclesiastes 3:9-17.
I believe we will all one day stand before God. For those who deny there is a God it will be a surprise. Sadly by that time it will be too late.
To day is the day one needs to acknowledge God, to turn and worship him. To acknowledge that Jesus Christ is the Son of God the Saviour of mankind.

Think about it.

On Atheism

On Atheism
“Atheism treats people cheaply. Also, it robs death of meaning, and if death has no meaning, how can life ultimately have meaning? Atheism cheapens everything it touches look at the results of communism, the most powerful form of atheism on earth.
And in the end, when the atheist dies and encounters God instead of nothingness he had predicted he’ll recognize that atheism was a cheap answer because it refused the only thing that’s not cheap the God of infinite value”
                                         Peter John Kreeft PH.D. 
                                                   as quoted in a case for faith by Lee Strobel
I have always contended that there has to be more to life than what I can see, touch, hear and feel. That life is more than an accumulation of a bunch of bobbles bangles and beads. That is why I accepted Christ as my saviour in the first place. He made life make sense.
I truly believe there is life beyond death. That death is not an end. That, that thing that is us, our very soul does not die when our physical body wears out. But travels through eternity.
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.
To my knowledge no Atheist or group has ever come up with a moral code to equal that of the ten commandments.
In those few short words the Bible lays down for mankind in brief how to live with respect for both God and our fellow man.
The Bible does not contest the fact that there is a God. It makes it clear there is. End of story.
The Bible make it clear we all have hope. The Atheist offers no hope.
The call of Jesus to the world is,

“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.  

Take my yoke upon you and learn from me,

for I am gentle and humble in heart,

 and you will find rest for your souls.  

For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.” 

                                                                         Matthew 11:28-30.

Here’s something to think about.
 The one thing no Atheist has ever been able to explain, is why do so many people around the world who are going through all kinds of pain and suffering still have an unwavering faith in a just and loving, almighty God.
I believe the answer is simple. There is a just, and loving, almighty God.
Think about it.