God and His Existence

Experiencing God
Talking about God, the first time that I've heard things about Him was when I was seven years old. That time, all I knew was that He is the one who gave me my parents and siblings. He is so great that He was able to make the world full of life. Whether He is real or not, I didn't bother to know the answer. I just admired Him for what He had done to me and to everyone. Until one day when I felt His presence, I started to believe and fully understand who He really is.

God. The One that we pray to every morning and ask for forgiveness and guidance. The truth is HE EXISTED IN THE VERY BEGINNING. I myself believe so. I came to know about Him when I was once lost in the darkness. Indeed, I was a problematic child. I had a lot of fears inside me that I couldn't explain. I would cry around the corner of the classroom most of the time during my first grade. I really hated school and everything related to it. The teacher herself couldn't solve my problem. All I have wanted was the feeling of being secure from something and that includes my mom and dad back there, always watching at me. (Picture on the left from God Focus)

The news spread out (it became some sort of an issue- quite embarrassing*) and the principal soon came and called my mom. Nobody in fact (even my parents) could understand the thing that I was afraid of. The hope of being able to encourage me to study again was getting smaller and smaller. Come to think about it, nobody would really eat me so what was I afraid of at that time? Well, I was afraid of being left alone. Everytime that my parents would drop me at school, there's always a part of me that would think of being abandoned or thrown away by them (yeah I know this looks a bit silly). I was desperately looking for someone to cling on. My parents then decided to bring me to a “faith healer”. I was too young to know what is real and what is not so I believed in the “faith healer”. She gave me a tiny stone and told me to put it inside the classroom. She said that the stone will soon sublimate and my fears will be gone. (Picture on the right from serpent hand sample)
The stone indeed disappeared. I was so amused by it and I felt a lot happier. However, what made me have the courage to enter school again was not that. It was actually God who gave me hope and courage. I was given much more like a second chance. I was able to continue studying. I accepted God and learned many things from Him. A strong faith to Him was built inside me and my life eventually changed.

Proofs of His existence
Admit it or not, it's really hard to convince a person to believe in God. If it was just an easy task, then there would be no atheists, skeptics and agnostics today. As true Christians, it was usually said that we don't really need to look for proofs of God's existence. But without proofs, how then will we able to make someone believe in His existence?

One might say that the best way to know if God really exists or not is through having experiences with Him personally. I would love to agree that. I myself was changed after I’ve met God. I met Him not in the sense that I saw Him before my very own eyes, but I’ve felt Him. He opened His arms to me. He gave me hope, courage and love. Realizing this, the strong faith that I have was the result of it. However, before He changed my life, I was in fact the first one who made a move to accept Him and believe in Him. If it were not for that, I would not be what I am right now.

So to be open-minded and to believe should be made first. As St. Anselm of Canterbury had once said, we must believe in something in order to understand it. Faith is important to achieve Wisdom who is no other than God Himself and with faith comes the reasons. Therefore, each one of us needs to have faith in God. Through faith, we will be able to answer the questions we have about God. This thread of faith, as I believe, must not depend on what we see (the appearance), but rather on what God wants us to see (the reality). We being true Christians must look at a different point of view in order to see things more clearly. For God wants us to believe in Him without letting us know if He really exists, we must prove to him that we really have complete faith in Him. (Picture on the left from Anselm Institute)