Gospel Reflections #429: How do we need God?

Psalm 14:1 "The foolish man says in his heart, 'There is no God.'"

Perhaps this world, affected by sin, has no need for a God.

If we do need a God, it would be "a God who would grant our human desires.

In this world, we perceive ourselves as the best and those who rely on others as weak.

In this world, the strong win, and improving ourselves is defined as a wonderful thing.

We cannot prove the existence of God, but each of us must have something to rely on in our hearts. It may be ourselves, money, position, or honor.

How could we Christians believe in God's existence?

Even if we know about God through the Bible, what made us believe in it?

We can't answer that question for ourselves.

We believe in God's existence not because we earnestly sought Him, but because the Holy Spirit worked and we accepted His work.

We do not know how the Holy Spirit worked, but we are able to believe in God's existence because the Holy Spirit worked on a foolish sinner. It is by no means something we can do on our own.

It is not that a foolish person says, "There is no God," but that he or she becomes a fool, that is, a person who turns away from God because he or she does not accept God's existence, and we have been made "children of God" from "foolish people" by believing in God's existence.

God's presence exists in our hearts, but the time will soon come when we will have God's presence in the new world to come. Until then, if there is anything we can do to prove God's presence, it is to rejoice, praise, and share the God we are experiencing!

AUTHOR'S BIO: This Gospel Reflections page is written by Masae San, who resides in Hiroshima, Japan. Masae is a dedicated student of the Bible with a deep passion for the Gospel of Jesus Christ. She shares her daily reflections on Gospel perspectives to reach out to others and spread the message of God's true love through a Christ-centered approach. We are sharing her insights here so that you, too, can experience the joy that comes from knowing and understanding the true Gospel and the love of God through Jesus Christ.