Today, belief in God is often seen as a naiveté. For many, believing in God is like believing in Santa and the Easter Bunny: nice, something for the kids, a warm nostalgia or a bitter memory, but not something that’s real. Here are some of my own reasons why I continue to believe in God.
I believe in God because I sense, at the deepest level of my being, that there’s an inalienable moral structure to things. Life, love, and meaning are morally contoured. There’s an inalienable “law of karma” that’s experienced everywhere and in everything: good behavior is its own happiness; just as bad behavior is its own sorrow.
Simply put: The measure you measure out will be the measure that’s measured back to you. That’s Jesus’ version of it and can be translated this way: The air you breathe out is the air you will re-inhale. If we breathe out love, we will meet love. If we breathe out hate and anger, we will soon enough find ourselves surrounded by hated and anger. Reality is so structured that goodness brings goodness and sin brings sin.
My next reason for believing in God is because the Gospel works. What Jesus incarnated and taught ultimately resonates with what’s most precious, most noble, and most meaningful inside of life and inside each of us. Whenever I have the faith and courage to actually live out the Gospel, to roll the dice on its truth, the loaves multiply and feed the thousands and David defeats Goliath. But it doesn’t work unless I risk it.
The objection could be raised here that many sincere, faith-filled people risk their lives and truth on the Gospel and, from all appearances in this world, it doesn’t work for them. They end up poor, as victims, on the losing side of things. But again, that’s a judgment we make from the standards of this world, from the Gospel of Prosperity where whoever has the most worldly success wins.
Anyone who lives out the Gospel of Jesus as faithfully as he or she is able, will be blessed with something beyond worldly success, namely, the deeper joy of a life well-lived, a joy which Jesus assures us is deeper, less ephemeral, and more lasting that any other joy.
God’s existence becomes real to us when we live an honest, sincere life.
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