Thursday, 24 June 2010

Which of these is more likely?

Andy Murray wins Wimbledon this year;
England win the South Africa world cup;
The Government increases taxes;
God loves you.

It is said that there are only two things we can be sure off: death and taxes. But that is something of an exaggeration.
We know someone will win Wimbledon.
We know some team will win the World Cup.
But we can only hope it will be our man, our team.

We can be certain of things in general but not sure of the specifics.
We all know we will die but most of us don't know
the when and the how and the cause.

And although some are sure that there is a God, and that He loves us,perhaps many just hope it will be so. Or cant believe that it could be so.

But surely science has proved there is no God? Not really. Science can only tell us about what is in the universe. It can tell us about our life but it cant tell us about our before or after life, because these things are outside the time-space universe. In the same way science cannot observe God, for it is in the nature of God that He is not a part of the universe. We live in time, God does not, He is eternal. We live in physical bodies, God does not, He is Spirit. The universe is where we live but God has life in Himself. God specifies science but science cannot specify God.

So how can we be sure there is a God. Not in science but in faith, and love. We all have faith in something – even people who don't believe in God have faith in their non-belief. But faith in nothingness leads only to emptiness. If life is an accident then it is just how we pass time between non-life states, so what happens to you in your life doesn't matter. If you win, so what. If you lose, so what - that's life. What else do you expect?

But have you noticed how love argues with emptiness? Even people who refuse to believe in God get upset if they are not loved, or their love is let down. Love stands against the nothingness of life; love stands for life having meaning. Where can such love come from, if all life is nothingness?
What is the evolutionary meaning of love? If evolution is all about the survival of the fittest, what sense does love make, for this is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down His life for us.

Love comes from God. And this is how God showed His love among us: He sent His one and only Son into the world that we might live through Him. God is love. We love because He first loved us. Science is a testimony about nature, and we accept what it says though it is only human testimony. God's testimony is greater, and this is it: He has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He who has the Son has life. Love is a two way thing: God certainly loves you, will you love God?

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