And without faith it is impossible to
please God, because anyone who comes to Him must believe that He exists and
that He rewards those who earnestly seek
Him.
No matter what
your worldview, there are details about the original creation beyond absolute
confirmation by either science or Scripture. As an old preacher said, “Nobody
can say for sure how it all came about. Only one person was there when it
happened.” Fortunately, we know
something about the “one person.”
Through Him all things were made;
without Him nothing was made that Has been made. In Him was life, and that life
was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has
not understood it…He was in the world, and though the world was made through
Him, the world did not recognize Him. He came to His own, but His own did not
receive Him. Yet to all who received Him, to those who believed in His name, He
gave the right to become children of
God—children born not of natural decision, nor husband’s will, but born of God.
The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory,
the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
In Christ, light
more powerful than any darkness came into the world. Through Him, we can know grace,
truth and eternal life. We can experience it, live in it, be led by it.
How do we
experience it? We believe that He exists and we seek to know Him. The problem
is that a lot of people offer lip service to this search, but get out of bed,
put on their shoes and go through their day looking to something else for
enlightenment, truth and future meaning. When we believe money exists, we work
for it and spend it, when our life is defined by relationship, we cultivate and
prioritize them, and when we believe in our own abilities, we seek education
and a career.
Often it is
only when these fail us that we look to God—sometimes for an answer, sometimes to
fix blame. And He will graciously meet us at our point of need. But it is only
the consistent and faith-centered seeker after God who experiences His
pleasure, His presence and His rewards.
Nancy Shirah
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