Evidence is fine in matters of court. Presuming innocence is the fair minded reality of a Sovereign Society that protects all citizens from despotic false accusation and imprisonment. What then is the proper method to look upon evidence in matters that are based upon a faithful belief without such evidence?

We are highly blessed and have the avenue to approach and please God because we have eschewed the requirement of evidence in our pursuit of a relationship with Him. It is not that evidence would be dismissed when it is presented in His appearance before us, it is that evidence is not a requirement of faith. In fact, a demand for evidence becomes evidence itself of a believer’s lack of faith. Does this present an additional barrier to belief or produce an obstacle to discipleship?

Clearly those seeking evidence will be the largest segment of those having not accepted the gift of grace for absent that requirement of proof they will not surrender. However, this is a benefit for many things in this life exist without our ability to rationally explain them, black holes, quarks, deja vou, gravity. Yet we believe in all of these anomalies, assuming at some point that we will be given the evidence or rise to level of understanding commensurate in accepting them as fact. Is faith a discipline consistent with this “wait and see” acceptance?

For some this may be effective argument, but a true acceptance of grace is rarely associated with a factual proof of an evidentiary argument, as in the case with Thomas the Apostle. For how many will have the opportunity to see the Christ standing before us in order for us to accept and believe? Well, none it appears. So, in this day and age we are left with the requirement placed upon us by God in that He clearly wanted us to make a choice based not on evidence but upon a spiritual understanding of the objective Truth that is God’s Existence.

Did people believe in God before Jesus came, of course, having seen His hand in their lives, having seen His Masterful Work in the creation around them, but it was still a thing of faith above all other evidence? It is possible that Christ was the evidence of God provided for our understanding. However, any way it is viewed,. faith remains an ideal based not upon evidence or proof but upon Spiritual Understanding and acceptance of something greater than our intellect.  For if I only believe in things that I can explain and understand than I am a fool dismissing the majority of a world that confronts my rational sensory acceptance.

God does not need my belief in order to exist, for that makes me the center of the universe and its definitions, which clearly do not depend upon me for anything. God defines the universe, we are merely observers of that candid definition we often struggle to explain and tolerate. We all die, it is a fact that is inescapable. Yet man continues to find evidence to suggest that somehow we can be immortal without God’s intervention. The angels are immortal, yet they owe that immortality to God’s design. Our Spirits are immortal yet again owing the same debt of invention to the Lord. Why then would the creator of all things require evidence of His existence as a prerequisite for belief in His Rules, Parameters, expectations or offers of Mercy and Grace? He wouldn’t. God does not need me to believe, He offers me the benefit of that belief without proof, called faith, without which it is impossible to please Him.

I don’t care what evidence you produce to the contrary, God to me is the Truth that I wholly and completely accept in faith. This faith provides a foundation upon which my world may not be shaken or moved. That is enough evidence for me. In Jesus’ Name.