Fresh Footprints - In Search Of A Lost GodChikamu

 Many people have lost their God-awareness in our modern secularised world. Instead, we try to satisfy our soul-hunger through consumerism, but it’s a futile quest. False gods produce false hopes. Spiritual needs cannot be fulfilled by chasing after material possessions. Feeding bodily appetites leaves our souls starving, so we wither and die on the inside. If we are to find true meaning and satisfaction in our lives, we need to rediscover the God we have lost.

Thankfully, he is easy to find once we learn to look properly.

To do so, first of all, we must abandon our dualistic, either/or, mindset and learn to think both/and. This is especially true when we are tempted think either science or God. It is perfectly realistic to believe in science and God. The laws of science are the laws of God. This is why most of the scientists who gave us the modern world were also profound believers in God. We need to recapture their holistic mentality.

One of the problems with the creation versus evolution debate is that it seems either we believe in no God at the beginning of an incredibly old universe of we believe in a really distant God at the start of an incredibly old universe. Even if you believe in a young universe of a mere 6000 years, it still is a long time ago.

Since science can only measure time and space, it cannot venture to before the beginning. So science cannot disprove the existence of God. It is outside of science’s remit. To be an atheist is an act of faith. And the Bible makes it clear that believing in the existence of a Creator is also an act of faith.

What we really need, if we are to rediscover God, is evidence of what he is like now, in our current world. Could we have communication with him? Does he still involve himself in our lives? Are even miracles possible? This is our quest, our personal journey, but there is help at hand. Discovering what God is like is less about where we look and more about how we look. It is to do with finding an overriding pattern that reveals the nature, the ‘shape’ of God.