Unshackled Moments ~ August 2 ~ God Is Real

If you ask me to prove what I believe, I can’t... The mind can proceed only so far upon what it knows and can prove. There comes a point where the mind takes a leap... and comes out upon a higher plane of knowledge, but can never prove how it got there. All great discoveries have involved such a leap.

~Einstein

God is real. It's a simple statement, a true statement. Some may doubt it and question it and demand scientific proof, but I know it. Well how is what I know more important than scientific proof? It's not to you, but it is to me. What you know is more important to you than scientific proof. If you are inclined to disagree than consider why you believe in scientific proof. It lines up with your own experiences that tell you what you can and can't believe and trust.

We believe when the "evidence" leans a certain way and lines up with our own personal experience. Video, photographs and descriptions from people who appear to be trustworthy make me believe that there is a geographical place we refer to as Alaska. I've never seen it personally. I know photographs can be doctored and faked. Has anyone seen Jurassic World? Video doesn't prove much these days either. But I know Alaska is real.

I know God is Real because I have seen what He has done. I have experienced His presence and His power. I have struggled with addiction for nearly thirty years and then had Him do for me what I had never been able to do for myself. I've met many crack heads, coke fiends, tweakers, junkies and drunks who have all gotten clean and sober and all given credit to God for doing what they couldn't. I have seen and experienced transformations in character and emotions and mental states that are as obvious and as radical as caterpillar to butterfly that simply can't be explained any other way.

I have both felt the presence of God and seen the difference in my life when I surrendered my will to His. That is evidence that I can easily trust more than what can or can not be seen under a microscope. And the thing is that that same very real God I have found also wants to have a relationship with you. It's His passion. It's His  greatest desire. He wants that so badly that He sent His Son to die and remove the barrier between you and Him. If you give Him an opening as small as a BB, He will show Himself real to you as well.