Several years ago
while shoveling snow outside of the business I
worked for, I felt a tap on my shoulder. I
turned around and was greeted by a gentleman who
asked, “Do you believe in the existence of God?”
“Absolutely!” I replied. He then asked “And, you
believe that he created everything?” Again, I
replied “Yes, absolutely!” This gentleman went
on say, “So, of all of His creations, the
universe, the stars, the oceans, the animals and so
on… He, can reach out and have as much of His
creations that He desires at anytime, except for
one..” “And, this one thing that He cannot just
have at His own choosing is the one thing He desires
the most.. Do you know what this one thing is?”
I thought for a moment and not being one myself for
just guessing replied, “No I do not, what is the
one thing God desires the most?” The gentleman
then said, “Our Love!” “Of all of God’s
creations, the one thing he desires the most is the
one thing that He cannot just have at anytime because
“we” must choose to give it to Him.”
As profound as this
message was, it became even more amazing. I
turned for just a brief moment and looked away from
the gentleman as something drew my attention off in
the distance. I then
turned back towards the man with whom I
had been talking… and, he was gone. I scanned
the area with my eyes but there was no one to be
seen. It struck me as odd that he could just
vanish so quickly but my greatest shock came when I
looked down at where he had been standing and there
was only fresh untouched snow. There
were no footprints where he had been standing nor
were there any tracks leading to or away from
where I was.
One thing I have learned
over the years is that it takes so much more effort
to not believe in
a Creator, than it does to believe. We
only need to open our eyes, open our hearts and
open our minds to the truth. If we simply look
at the evidence, even the blind can see
the fingerprints of a Creator and the
perfection within His design.
As you read this, you are
sitting on a ball that is spinning in space at a speed
of 1,070 miles per hour. (1,670/kph.) It is not
on rails or tracks but yet it keeps on a perfect
course. It only maintains this perfect course
due to the gravitational pull of the sun’s mass in the
center of our galaxy and the counter-balance of the
gravitational pull of the moon in our
atmosphere. The size, mass, weight and distance
of the sun, the earth and the moon are completely
relative. The balance of our rotation and
essentially the balance of our existence would not be
possible if every one of these variables were not
exact.
As humans, there are of
course several things that are absolutely essential to
the existence of life and humanity. Among these
are oxygen to breath, water to drink, food to eat
and a heat source for warmth. We just happen to
have all of these things right here on earth where
humans require them. Nowhere in all
of space does oxygen exist except a
small envelope just around the surface of the
earth. Nowhere in all of space has evidence
of water been found to exist except here on
earth and we have an endless supply since our earth’s
surface is composed of 75% water. The sun
is at just the perfect location and distance from the
earth to warm the surface for us to an inhabitable
environment. If the sun were just a little
closer we would burn up and just a little further
away, we would freeze. We have
an ionosphere that acts as a protective barrier
around the earth. It holds in the heat and
oxygen for us and at the same time, blocks out harmful
radiation and deflects incoming objects from space.
One of the most amazing
facts about our existence though comes through our
food sources. Just look at the various
forms of food that just grows up from beneath the
surface of the earth. The numerous fruits,
berries and nuts that just grow from
the trees and dangle awaiting to be
picked. The various animals and
wildlife here on earth that provide meat for a
required protein source and the unlimited
amount of food in the seas. On the earth
there are four perfect seasons: Spring, Summer,
Autumn and Winter. Spring is the birth of
all that is new and facilitates the germination
process and the beginning of the new life.
Summer is the growth period which allows the food
source to mature for consumption. Autumn is the
period for harvest and reaping the mature food.
Winter is the season that kills off the germs in the
earths surface by freezing and prepares the ground for
the following spring. If you remove any one
of these four seasons, you would throw off the balance
of nature. The earth tilts towards the sun
allowing both hemispheres there adequate seasonal
requirement. We possess a symbiotic relationship
with so much of our surroundings that cannot be
ignored. Humans breath in oxygen and exhale
carbon dioxide whereas plants take in carbon dioxide
and give off oxygen. It is possible that neither
one could exist without the other. Thereby
concluding that each was created at the same time for
each others benefit of existence.
There is just an endless
amount of evidence of creation and just too much
to merely be attributed to “luck” or
“coincidence.” To simply say
that all of these necessary variables and factors of
existence just aligned themselves by chance,
is to almost make oneself appear uneducated. For
the believer, physical evidence is not required nor
necessary for belief. Their belief is based on
faith in that which is unseen, since the spiritual is
more real than the physical. The believer will
often tell you that God does not exist because they
believe, but rather they believe because God
exists. For some though in today’s world, they
search out for evidence that is tangible.
Evidence that can be seen with the eye. The
further science goes into the realm of the unseen, the
more we begin to see the fingerprints of
perfection upon creation.