STILL NO RADAR CAPABLE OF DETECTING GOD

"Sir, still not not picking God up on the screen."

Trillions of dollars spent on science around the world each year, but still we have no radar, Doppler or otherwise, capable of detecting God. Nope, and no microscope, electron or otherwise, capable of seeing the smallest piece of God's creation. Yeah, we still don't have a telescope, Hubble or otherwise, capable of seeing the end of God's physical creation. Oh my goodness, no my child, we do not have any physical instrument invented by mankind capable of seeing into and photographing God's spiritual world or dimension (for the science buffs). We still do the spiritual manually and personally, thank God.

Where is this groundbreaking article headed? Here there and everywhere, but always for and about my God, my Lord. Looks like Christianity is dying according to doomsayers. Umm, do they really think there is a chance God will lose? Let me think. The last time God lost was...never. We give far too many human attributes - more like all the bad human attributes - to God. Yes sir, he is always angry and wanting us to kill non-believers or sinful believers, etc. Now, that's a timeless attribute. For some reason that doesn't seem to fit into a God that Jesus said loves us unconditionally and is forever forgiving us. I really think that if God wants someone murdered, he is quite capable of it himself with one flick of his eyelash. How about God throws us into Hell for dancing or merely listening to music. Does anyone remember David, Jesus' distant relative? I recall him playing the flute and dancing with joy for our Lord. Oh my dear brothers and sisters. How you love to find ways to bottle up God. When we box God in, we are putting limitations on him. The last time I checked God is still omniscient, omnipresent, and omnipotent. I hate to disappoint those seeking a bottled God, but it ain't going to happen. That's the God I know and love; without limit and divinely loving.

One of the world's leading and most revered scientists states that there is no proof that God exists. My thought is one of pity for this man that was born with a great scientific mind but with eyes so blind. I know he is confined to a wheelchair, but surely, he must have gone outside at some point in his life and viewed a sunrise or sunset. Has he never at least seen pictures of majestic purple mountains covered in their majesty with towering trees interspersed with open meadows decorated with a seemingly endless variety of flowers of varied and magnificent colors and shapes? Evidently, he has never noticed the deep blue sky lit by a brilliant fire-eyed sun that warms but does not consume and the decorous and infinite variety of clouds that drift constantly across that sky driven by an unseen wind that, though invisible to the eye, we know exists due its effects  - hmmm, sort of like God. But since when is an authority on physical science our go-to guy for info about our spiritual God?

Oh, no! Isis is going to take over the world. Iran and North Korea have nuclear weapons. Global warming is melting the ice caps. The younger generation is going to Hell. Put your trust in God, not in man, and keep in mind that Jesus taught us that worrying has never added one day to a person's life. Sit down wherever you may be and talk to God about all your worries. After all, it is his will that is being done, but he always has time to sit with you and talk about all your worries...always. Jesus told us that if we have faith, we will have eternal life. So, if we have faith, what or who can kill us besides God, himself? Cool the worrying bit about things you have absolutely no control over.

Kick back. Listen carefully. I'm going to get really serious. You can serve and give and love your fellow brothers and sisters all day and night for the rest of your life, but until you give a piece of your time every day to talk, listen, and get to know our Father on an extremely personal level the way he knows us, then you will never reap the full rewards of Christianity nor be spiritually fulfilled and connected with our Lord as he so deeply desires us to be. I cannot overstress the importance of a personal relationship with our Father. Do not relegate this part of Christianity to a place of secondary importance. This relationship will totally change your life. This relationship will strengthen you beyond your wildest imagination. This relationship will create an impermeable bond between you and our God. With this relationship, you will be able to translate God's love and forgiveness into the service you do for others in his name as he asked us to do. 

One last item before I close. If you express or come on as tight and tough (eg. you are going to hell unless you change) with your faith, then you are going to have a terrible conversion rate and most likely a high rate of driving people from the church. Lighten up. God is loving, gentle, compassionate, forgiving. We need to stick to the loving, forgiving, compassion, etc and leave the judging to our Father who judges based on a complete knowledge of a person's life and the causes behind their actions and what is in their heart. Let's be good and uplifting examples for those around us; believers or not. Let's be good stewards and walk in the true light of God as shown to us by our Lord Jesus Christ. God's Blessings and comfort to you all.