Believe in God

       I was recently watching a TV show where the dialogue went, “Do you believe in God?”  The reply was, “Sometimes.”  the dialogue was not meant to be a comedy scene, but a rather serious discussion between two people.  The obvious conclusion was that the two people are not believers at all but merely two people trying to make sense of the things that are happening in their lives.  While the dialogue was merely that of an entertainment broadcast, it does reflect the mindset of many people in the world today.  They seem to want to believe in God but do not have any proof that He exists and so then just write Him off as a figment of their imagination.  There was a comic strip in the 80’s called “BC” where the lives of “cave people” were discussed.  In one strip, the main character asked for evidence that there was a God.  The following panels showed great wonders of the world, sunsets, the heavens, meteors and finally, after having observed all of these wonderful things, the character proclaims, “Well, I guess there is no God.”  He had seen the answers but had refused them because he didn’t get what he wanted or had hoped for to convince him that there was a God. Job 38:1-2 says, “Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,   ‘Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?’”

     Job was man of God but had some issues as to why he was going through the calamities that had befallen him.  After all of the discourses of Job and his three friends, God finally answers him in the beginning of chapter thirty-eight.  God’s words to Job could fit the response to many of the people in the world today.  “Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?” 

We know that God then continued to relate to Job things that Job should have known or thought of but didn’t.  The Book of Job at this point, becomes a science book as it relates things that only God could have done from the intricate designs of the snow flake to the giant animals or the matters of the universe.  We often look at a beautiful sunset and declare that it is the result of the Master Artist, God HImself.  We observe the healing of a person and declare how God has worked in that healing.  At the same time, we wonder what is going on in the world or why God isn’t answering our prayers or basically just doing things we way we would want them done in the time frame that we would want it to be accomplished.  It is those times that many people don’t believe in God.  Let us consider the compilation of sixty-six books by 40 authors with the same unique theme and continuity over a period of several thousand years.  You all have your own copy of this unique book and it alone testifies about the existence and working of God in our lives each and every day.  Job was being accused of “words that darkens counsel without knowledge.  It is indeed a shame that we find ourselves in the same situation.  You should believe in God because you got up, breathed, ate food, moved about the house, traveled to the store, met people, talked and had enjoyed the company of people in your life, lived through another day and went to sleep at night.  Without God, none of it would have taken place.  Even, and more so in death, you believe in God because He is going to get you to your final resting place for all eternity.  We should never say, “I believe in God sometime,” but rather, I believe in God all the time, twenty-four seven, three hundred sixty-five days of the year, all the years of my life.  Praise God for His working in our lives, all the time.