Did God create us, or is he a figment of man’s need for a supreme being?
If God created us, why doesn’t he prove himself by writing his name on the underside of each rock, spelling out his intents in each cell in our bodies, or thundering his proof from the mountaintops, calling out, “I am God. Bow before me and tremble.”?
Some claim that we have made up God; that his “miracles” are too convenient to be truth; and that there is a natural explanation for every spiritual “revelation.”
The funny thing is, that is just how God wants to appear to the world. 1 Corinthians 1:18 says that the message of the cross is foolishness to the world. God planned it that way. He desires us to make a choice, one of faith and determination to seek after him. We have to make up our minds to believe in God.
John addresses this in three verses:
John 7:17 tells us that when we choose God, he will show us his truth is real.
John 8:47 says that unbelief means that we do not belong to God.
John 14:21 gives us love as God’s motivation for drawing us to him.
Paul is more specific and to the point in 1 Corinthians 2:14: God is spirit, and we can only find him through the spirit. We will never know him through our natural senses.
So, if not belonging to God is the reason for unbelief, and if we only know the truth when we know God, how can we find him? There has to be a way to bridge the gap between the natural world of unbelief in God, and the spiritual world where God can be found.
How can we choose to find God?
Romans 10:9 reveals the secret to it all: Confess, believe, and we will be saved from spiritual death.
When we make up our minds to find God, he will be there for us. It’s not a mystery. It’s a thing of the spirit, and we can only come to him in our spirit.
God is outside of the natural world, and he desires us to worship him in spirit and in truth.
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