Does God Exist For You

Be honest. Haven't you ever been through a situation in your life that manipulated your God-fearing mind to think, "Does God really exist?" Is God merely an intervenous antibiotic injection injected in you while you were growing up?

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At least, that was the case when I was a boy, and catechism classes were absolutely inescapable for me. I was not rammed into the sessions by some superior power, or pushed into an abyss of a double-bind situation. I saw, I heard, and I believed, that God is important in my life. That was what everyone told me to believe in. I lacked the power to seek the rationality of the doctrines I blindly followed.

As a child, I was forbidden to raise questions against the dogma. The teachings inculcated in me, almost to the point where it started to appear like the demonstration of a child exhibiting perfect state of echolalia. 

What changed now?

Now, I hold a new perspective towards God, and His great plan for mankind. All the teachings furnished in me were fertilizers for my sprouting seeds of religion. I chose to grow towards the light, and not to follow some rope that would guide me to where I should grow to. 

Isn't that what God wants from all of us? To find our own way of understanding Him, and know His unique manifestation in our lives, than to follow merely a reflection of what He truly is? 

For me, He is not merely a Church dweller, but I can find Him everywhere in nature. Isn't nature His masterpiece? I often talk to Him as a friend, and not someone who is pulling the strings of my life. Didn't He specify that in the Bible that He sees us not as servants, but as friends? Of course, He has the authority to force control over me, but He also gave us free will to choose what we truly want; the path we want to choose. 

Does God exist? 

As they say, to the one who believes, He exists, and to the one who does not, He does not exist. No matter what, He believes in you. No one that I know off, has ever seen God, except for His intervention in a no-way-out situations to drive them out of trouble. Isn't that enough for one to believe in His existence. 

While I know of people who say that God talks to them in various ways, especially through Bible. But, to a sceptic's eyes, it is solely nothing but arbitrary happening. Well, I don't yet believe in the epiphany of the Holy Spirit in a person, educating him of the seraphic vernacular. Am I unworthy of such privilege, that I was never bestowed with the gift of articulation of such an unknown language?

We know of people who don't believe in His existence, but simply have no reason to support their notions. Some stop believing in His existence because of some horrible experience they went through. And, then too, God is culpable for all that happened, as they think. Now, is that fair to get into trouble with our own imbecilic ideas and blame God for what happened? 

I think, God exists as an unswerving and unshakable belief within our hearts. We put faith in Him and hope things to get right. Some might define it as a placebo kind of effect to explain the therapeutic miracles that happen. 

There are those who showcase their, "Closeness To God," and pretend to be the chosen ones destined to be throned next to God. Once their cloaks of faux faith wears off, people who believed in their witchery, sometimes lose faith in God himself. 

There are limitations to our explanations of the world as we see it. And, some day our scientists might find answers to everything in this world. But, would that drive out the thoughts of God from our lives? Wouldn't we still need those moral constructs to maintain an equilibrium? And, wouldn't we still need someone to submit our cries to, someone to blame for nothing, someone to work miracles in our lives, and someone to let the child sleep peacefully thinking that, 'God,' is watching over him?

Copyright (c) 2014 Shine Jayakumar