Finding inner peace and security
Part 4: We are restless until we find our rest in God
So, faith in God is the way for us all to share in inner peace and security. But can we justify believing in God?
The answer is: “Yes”, but we need to think about the matter a bit more carefully. The “God” that many people today have abandoned, dismissed, or never even bothered to think about, is, behind several layers of genuine piety, simply a fairy God-mother figure. People want her to wave her magic wand and make everything alright. When they discover that this doesn’t happen, they decide that it is a mistake to believe in God. However, once you realise that God is the name for the human experience of making contact with ultimate experiences of love, peace and joy; when you understand that there is an experience of transcendence which brings a deep sense of unity with all creation and of being one with the absolute and infinite; when you experience for yourself that faith in God opens up a life of meaning and purpose and which becomes a channel of supremely precious spiritual gifts: then you see the reality of God, and that the best thing you can possibly do with your life is to live in tune with this reality. And it is a reality – we call it, “God” just for shorthand, to avoid describing it by the long preceding sentence. Ultimately, we do not fully know what this God is, but the experience of the reality of God is real. And everyone who enters deeply into this experience discovers this to be so – they enter into the reality and they find this to be supremely life-giving.
So, we are able to return to the issue in focus today. We have explored the hollowness at the heart of modern society, and at the heart of so many people’s lives. We have put forward the view that belief in God is the way to find inner peace and security. And we have put forward an answer to people’s doubts as to whether or not it is justifiable to believe in this God. So, we are now able to affirm once again that faith in God is the way to find inner peace and security. I wish you well in your journey of discovery as you seek faith, or, if you are already one of that happy band who has faith, I wish you well with your journey of faith with God. You are a child of God, loved by him with an everlasting, unwavering love, and your way to relate to others is to understand that so are they.
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