I don’t have enough faith to not believe in God.
One would have to have a lot faith to believe that every star in the sky, every feature of earth and life itself is a random alignment of haphazard matter and molecules. I believe it would take an incredible amount of faith to believe any life could come from a pool of goo, let alone develop into the towering intellect of man.
“The heavens are telling the glory of God; and the firmament proclaims his handiwork.” Psalm 19:1
Order never comes from chaos unless somebody puts it together. Imagine taking your watch, opening the back and disassembling it into its smallest pieces. Place all the pieces in a bag and seal it. Then, for the next 6,000 years, spin and twirl that bag and its contents. After 6,000 or 600,000 years, do you believe you would open that bag to find a ticking Rolex watch? I don’t have enough faith to believe that could occur. Now think of the human body. Probably one of the most complex things in creation, made up of DNA, proteins and other molecular things I don’t understand. What kind of faith does it take to believe from sludge, a man can develop? Do you even know how complex a kidney is?
Even Darwin himself agreed, saying, “To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree.”
I just don’t have enough faith to not believe in God.
I have seen the work of God, enough to leave no doubt in a Divine Guide. I’m not talking about an incredible sunrise or sunset, nor about the wonder of Niagara Falls or the Grand Canyon: all of which are proof of God’s artistry. No, I’ve seen God guide the paths of my life in a manner that helped me later.
I’ve gone through times in my life that show God’s guiding hand and presence. Though I wasn’t really a believer at the time, God helped me through the most difficult moment of my life, my dad’s death. I saw how a typhoon passed over Okinawa with its howling wind, the eye passing over, bringing total calm at the hour my dad died on the other side of the world. Coincidence? Maybe, not, I woke and thought of my father.
But, bigger still, the road that led me to my daughter’s illness and the years after. I know God guided the steps of my life to prepare me to survive this time. He led me to an incredible woman of faith to be my wife and lead me to Him. He surrounded me with friends, true men of Christ, to give me strength even when they didn’t know they were. God set scripture before my eyes and ears that would help me focus and stay strong. Romans 8:28 stands out, I heard for the first time ever just a week before she was diagnosed. John 10:27 – from which I drew peace the night in the ER when Jesus came to her side (see my book ‘I knew His Voice’ on Amazon). The title of my book even comes from this verse. These are all incidences in which God guided and set a fortress around me well before I knew I’d need this shield.
Think in your life, what has God done to make Himself aware and bolster your strength and faith? Look at the little things, that’s where God tends to work.
“The LORD is my strength and my shield; My heart trusted in Him, and I am helped; Therefore my heart greatly rejoices, And with my song I will praise Him.” Psalm 28:7
Find those moments and keys of the Lord’s action in your life and know that He is always working hard to defend and guide you. Even in the silence or ‘still small voice.”
Have faith.