#divinemaster

Many times people ask on this forum questions like, "What are your reasons for believing in God?" "How do you know God is real?" And so forth and so on. But the problem, at least for me, with answering the question at all is that, because I am fully convinced of my faith, everything is evidence for God's existence. You ask me, "How do you know God is real?" and my (almost) stuttering response is, "Because we're breathing, because we're having this conversation, because the sun is shining, or because it's raining, because anything beautiful exists at all, and not only beauty but wrong and sin as well--for where would I have the idea that the world isn't right if I didn't have some idea of how it was supposed to be right?" You ask me for a miracle, and I say, "Every waking moment is a miracle." And so whether God speaks to me in an audible voice, or heals me from my diseases, or gives me the grace of another living moment on this earth, I am equally grateful for what He does moment-by-moment. Faith, yes, is belief in certain things. But it is also a profound perspective that the believer has from inside his/her faith. Lewis's words are highly appropriate again, "I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else