I remember asking my mother this question when I was a child. She had loved the Lord all her life so I expected an answer that would put my mind at ease. Instead, she made me think. She told me that just a few years earlier, she had gone through a difficult time in her life where she found herself asking the same question. Many things were going on in her life during that time that I did not learn until I was older. But that day, she told me she found herself looking up at the ceiling and crying out to God but she felt nothing. All she saw was the ceiling. Her prayers just seem to hit the ceiling and fall back on her. This went on for some time.
Then one day she started thinking about the beginning of time. She thought about when the universe was created. Darwin’s theory states that two “things” collided together and an explosion occurred that created life as we know it today. But where did the two “things” come from? If a God did not create them, what was their beginning? The Bible says that God created the heavens and the earth (Gen. 1:1). It also states that God is “the Alpha and Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End” (Rev. 22:13). It boiled down to either two “things” from nothing came together and made the vast universe or a Holy God created all things. Something from nothing or a God who always was. What she told me next was life-changing. Both beliefs take faith because no one was there to see it happen. So the question became, which made more sense? When she came to that realization, the answer was easy. She had been through the science classes. She had lived and breathed the mountain air. She had also been through the birth of two children. Without a doubt, she knew that nothing but God could create such complexities. That was a turning point in her life. She had been a Christian sense her high school years but from this point she came to know God in a more personal way. She has spent the rest of her life sharing this passion with everyone she meets.
Those words from my mom have stayed with me all these years. I think of them often. The Christian walk is a walk of faith. That’s why it is important to read the Bible, talk to Him daily, and walk outside and meet God in His creation. He’s real even when you can’t feel Him.