I did it. I caved. I created a blog. Why??? Not entirely sure. Maybe it's because now I can comment on my friends' blogs (I'll be honest, you guys write interesting stuff and I want you to know that I'm interested in what you write). At the very least now you will be spared from any more super-long update emails flooding your inboxes :)
So for those of you who don't know, I'm back in Connecticut now - the land of no obvious accents. It's been a difficult transition. I'm so used to Virginia, I miss seeing the mountains every day and I was just beginning to accept the fact that I was never going to get away from country music. But clearly God had something else in mind and for now this is where He wants me to be.
Anyway, I was driving home from work today and I decided to stop by Borders. Browsing through books calms me down and helps me to relax - I'm not entirely sure of the science behind it, I just know that it does. So I wandered into the theology section, picked up a Ravi Zacharias book, and there were some books sitting on various shelving levels at the end of the section. Over this were the words "The Timeless Debate" and I saw books by Christopher Hitchens (an atheist) and other various authors who obviously believed Jesus was and is who He says He is. But I was suddenly dismayed by the fact that after thousands of years - 2,000 if we're counting from the time of Christ - and all the evidence that supports the conclusive, irrefrutable, doubtless existence of God...there's really nothing to debate. God exists. The end.
I certainly understand why people don't WANT to believe in God. I used to be an atheist. I didn't want to believe in God for a long time because I knew if I did (and if I went a step further and admitted that Jesus was the Messiah, which He is) then that MEANS something. That has an impact on my life. I am not an accident. Life isn't meaningless. I am not in control of what goes on around me. It's not about me. And in a country that focuses so much on individual success, giving up control of our lives is not exactly appealing at first.
And when things don't seem to be going so well in our lives, it's easy to blame God. I admit that I do it. Even atheists do it. I'm continually amazed to see how angry they are at something that they don't even believe exists. It seems like such a waste of time and energy. If they're so angry at Him, then that probably means they have good reason to doubt the idea that He doesn't exist.
Richard Dawkins himself said in a debate with John Lennox (and I'm paraphrasing here) "It's tempting to look at the stars, and the mountains, and the rivers, and think that there's something that created all that".
YOU BET IT IS!!! :-D
and that's all I have to say about that.
