We are surrounded by principles, forces and energies which we cannot see yet accept without argument, air, the atmosphere, the wind, gravity, radiation, solar particles, electricity.  We have accepted these laws or forces as fact through realization of continuous or repeated evidences.  They are independent of my belief.  They exist whether or not I choose to accept them as law.  They do not require my understanding in order to function.  They are independent of my existence, that is they will continue when I cease to function.  Why then would we choose to exclude God from this list of the accepted?

I submit that it is because we do not want to believe, because if we believe then we have accept that there are actions for which consequence exist.  It is not that we find the existence of God objectionable it is rather because His existence places requirements upon my choices, wants, desires and freedoms.  Acknowledging Him as the Creator and sole authority of the universe means that I will at some point be brought to account for all my actions that fall outside of His declaration.  We as Americans especially find the idea that there are limits to our personal pursuits unconscionable.  How dare God tell me what I can an cannot do?  How dare He establish moral absolutes and warn me of the consequence of following my hearts desires?  How dare He say that there is a better way to live and that blind pursuit of my way leads to hell?  Indignant, immoral, arrogant, uneducated, perhaps?

I know how to get back at Him for placing these requirements and statutes upon “my life”, I will openly declare that He doesn’t exist so that I may do what I wish to do, when I wish to do it, with whom I wish to do it.  The problems this line of thinking are immediately evident.  If I choose to believe that smoking doesn’t cause cancer will I not develop lung problems through continued usage?  If I choose not to believe in radiation will I not develop sickness when exposed to unseen gamma, x rays or radon gases?  If I choose not to believe in gravity will the tides cease or will I be free from injury if I jump off a bridge?  If I choose not to believe in air will I then be able to live underwater or cease to need oxygen?  If I choose not believe in electricity will it cease to power my lights or shock me when I stick a screwdriver in the wall socket?  If I choose not to believe that STD’s exist will this eliminate the risk of unprotected intercourse with multiple partners?  The answers to all these questions are self-evident, just as God is self-evident.  He is real and He does not require our belief in Him to be, He simply is.  That is why He told Moses to call Him, I AM that I AM.

Then we must grope with a larger problem, that He is right.  Murdering someone is evil and can never be justified, even when we kill our babies and reduce the impact by calling it abortion.  That sounds like a mission failure that is under our power and authority to call quits and go back to the drawing board.  There is not a single person who can rationally argue that stealing, lying, sleeping with someone’s spouse, talking back to parents, gossiping about your neighbor or taking his stuff produce anything but pain or short-lived gratification.  We as Americans constantly speak out about the dangers of materialism, greed and how they have brought about the downfall of this nation, yet we fail to see the correlation between this evidence and the absolute truth of God’s Word.  These things happen because He said that they would when a person chooses not to obey His Word.  The consequences of our “immoral” or “amoral” behavior produces the same results every time.  In fact, actions outside of God’s intention produce those same results for those who believe in Him as well as those who choose not to believe because “everyone” will have to give an account for their lives.  The only difference is that believers in the Lord are forgiven, the consequences are inescapable.  The consequences are the evidence of the truth of God’s Word and continually reprove the existence of God.

Sure the evidence for the existence of God is relevant, overwhelming and continuous, it is just not convenient.  We would rather believe in theories, adopted as our new age religions even when their contrivers warned against acceptance without proof.  Evolution will never be proven, “As the origin of Species” because it is not based upon fact and therefore requires my belief in it to make it real, any idol is just a stump of carved wood/metal until I assign it divinity.  I prefer to worship and follow a God who does not need my belief in Him in order to exist.  I would rather worship and follow a God who rewards my belief in Him with forgiveness, everlasting life and love.  A much better deal, don’t you think?  Next time you hear someone say they don’t believe in God because they can’t see Him, ask them how they know that the next breath they take will keep them alive when they cannot see the air?