“If you seek me with all your heart, I will let you find me,” says the Lord.
The Bible, Jeremiah 29:13–14
Everyone believes in something. Everyone has their own outlook on life; they have learned and embraced certain things, while rejecting others.
How can I know what is truly real among all of this? What really makes sense? How can I find meaning in my life? Where is true life to be found?
Is there a supreme authority? Is there a being who reigns over everything, who “controls” everything? God?
Does God really exist?
One of the major arguments in favor of the existence of a supreme authority is, in particular, the following:
• Every form of life follows an order
• the complexity of the interactions and interdependencies among living beings on this planet reduces the purely mathematical probability that all of this could have arisen “by chance” to nearly zero
• We, as human beings from very diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds, share a particular feeling: that we are not as we ought to be. We know what is right, yet we often act contrary to that knowledge. We thus all attest to the existence of a higher standard to which we feel bound to conform.
We defend ourselves when others hold us to this standard—and we may adhere to it very strictly, especially when we feel we have been wronged.
We do not meet this standard and feel that something is not as it should be. When a computer program does not work as it should, we call it defective… so what is wrong with us?
The Bible calls this “missing the mark”; that is the meaning of the word that has been translated as “sin.” Living off-target.
Sin means that we are not living according to our true calling. We are like a broken mirror. In some places, we can still recognize something of its original function, but the image it reflects is, in reality, unusable.
We also speak of “sins” to refer to isolated acts that are unacceptable. But the root cause of these “sins” lies in a fundamental deviation from our calling—that is, in this fundamental failure to fulfill our purpose, “sin.”
We therefore live off-target from our purpose. And what is this purpose?
God created us in his image so that we might come to know him, discover who he is and what he is like, and be in communion with him. This is what the Bible testifies to. We will return to this later.
How can I find the path that the Author has laid out for me? That is the theme of this entire website!
God is the author and creator of life. Do you want to enter into a dialogue with Him? Then ask Him.
Here’s a first piece of advice: Ask the Author! He did, in fact, make this promise: “Whoever seeks Him will be found by Him!
” Faced with the “broken mirror” of our existence, our Inventor, our Creator, and our Author promises us that He wants to make us new again.
Even if you’re not yet sure whether He really exists: speak to Him, and He’ll be able to show you if He really does exist. That, at least, is how I discovered Him. Prayer is nothing more than a dialogue with God.
If you want to get to know someone, nothing is more helpful than striking up a conversation with them, asking who they are, where they come from, and what they want. I’ve found that the same is true of God.
God explicitly declared, through the prophet Jeremiah, that we should seek Him—and that He would answer. So anyone who seeks to talk with Him, who wants to get to know Him, can count on His response.
So, ask Him. Ask Him to help you. Turn to Him with all your questions about your life.
Jesus said about this:
Whoever asks receives; whoever seeks finds; and to whoever knocks, the door will be opened.
That is why you should ask Him every day to meet with you. Seek Him, and He will meet with you. Call out to Him, and He will answer you. The only condition is that it must come “from the bottom of your heart”—in other words, you must be sincere.
Are you up for it?
God Answers
Since the creation of the world, God has not remained silent—quite the contrary: from the very beginning, He has desired to establish a relationship with humankind. It is we who have turned away from Him. That is why we must repent and turn back to Him.
“Let anyone with ears listen,” he tells us. He had many things recorded in writing, wrote his story in an exemplary way through an entire people, and ultimately took on human form himself. He included many things in these writings that we now call the Bible. The Bible is a veritable library. Inspired by the Spirit of God, many different people, at various times (spanning a period of more than 1,000 years!), recorded in different forms what God had told them and what they had experienced with Him. As we read these Scriptures, we discover God’s hand—the common thread that runs through the whole.
At the same time, through His Spirit—the Holy Spirit—He is omnipresent and seeks out people who open their hearts and ears to Him.
So if you truly want to hear from God, you can expect to receive an answer from two sources: God’s written Word, the Bible, and the Holy Spirit, who brings these centuries-old Scriptures to life for you, right here and now.
I want to strongly encourage you once again to begin this personal dialogue with God that I mentioned earlier. Because your whole life is at stake! The question is this: life or death—not only in the present, but for eternity.
Learn more
If you’re interested: You’ll find many personal testimonies and life stories from people who have encountered God personally in these inspiring videos, right here in the video collection dedicated to life testimonies and encounters with God.
If you’d like to learn more about the Bible, I recommend the BibleProject videos—for example, the introduction to the Bible.
Here you’ll find an online Bible that you can browse, featuring translations in various languages: bibleserver.com
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