Truth
Either God really exists and really did create life or millions of fortunate accidents created thought, reason and all of life on earth. The evolutionists are right about one thing - there is no other explanation.
But if there is a God, where is He? Is he either incapable or unwilling to disclose himself? Indeed, if God is God then he should certainly be able to make himself known.
Most people stop at this point and conclude since they are either unable or unwilling to find Him, then God does not exist. These people simply resign themselves to the conclusion that there is nothing beyond what they can observe and conclude that anyone who claims to have found God is either delusional or in some way mislead.
Many people live their entire lives with an internal void that they believe to be inevitable. If there is a God, they ask themselves, then why is He silent; why does He not disclose Himself?
The answer to these questions is that God is not silent and he does disclose himself. But He discloses himself only to those whom he chooses, and he chooses to disclose himself only to those who wish to know him. What about you? Do you wish to know him? You can know God and watch Him fill the void inside and bring you peace that surpasses understanding.
How will God disclose Himself and why has he not done so already?
Many of us are keenly aware of a void inside, an absence of something that is profound yet indefinable. Some have described it as an emptiness that cannot be filled. Pascal, the famous mathematician, referred to it by stating that within every man is a God-shaped void. Many of us are implicitly aware that if there is a God, then one of his functions is to fill that void. The void is the absence of God and until the void is filled, true peace and contentment is impossible. What separates us from God?
It is our own sin that separates us from God because God is moral and sin is immoral. There is but one cure for our separation from God and that cure is Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is God's only son and God's only provision for man's sin. Christ paid the penalty for our sin. He paid that penalty when he was sacrificed on the cross and later resurrected from the dead. In doing so, he created the means by which the sin of man can be erased. The erasing of sin is called "salvation." The word salvation means "healing." Salvation is a moral healing. Anyone can be healed. Healing begins when one makes a firm decision to trust in the sacrifice of Christ on the on the cross to pay the penalty for sin. This is called the "gospel." The word "gospel" means good news. It is good news because the payment for all sin is a free gift that needs nothing other than to be received. Once it has been received, a relationship with God can begin.
This healing is not simply a belief that makes people feel better. It is an actual occurrence. It is an encounter with Christ. And, as such, it is not based upon how much one believes because after the healing occurs in a sincerely committed person, it is no longer a question of "belief." It is an actual knowledge of God and an experiential relationship with him.
The faith that is required to initiate an experiential relationship with God is not simply the acquiescence that God exists. What is required is a firm decision to trust in the work of Christ for the forgiveness of all sins. It is a decision to trust in Christ and Christ alone - not trusting in a church, or trusting in a religion, or in a saint, or in an idol or in a religious leader. It is trusting Christ and only Christ as the only way to knowing God. That is all the faith that is needed, because it is the work of Christ that makes it work, not us. The amount of initial faith required to accomplish this is no more than the amount of faith needed to do it. After this is done, the true knowledge of God and the profound internal peace of God follows with obedience and surrender to his will. Do it. You have nothing to lose.
You can do it even if you have no "faith." God is not looking for how much you can talk yourself into believing. He is looking for a decision to trust in Christ and thereafter to follow him.
"He who has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me, and he who loves me shall be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will disclose myself to him." John 14:21
"And this is eternal lift, that they may know you, the only true God and Jesus Christ whom you have sent." John 17:3
"I am the way the Truth and the life and no one comes to the Father but through me" Jesus Christ, John 14:6