Continuation of This I Believe

​A longing in the heart for God is the best proof that there is a God. The psalmist expressed this conviction when he said, "As the heart pants after the water brooks, so pants my soul after thee, O God." Psalms 42:1 There is a consciousness in man that there is a God. We were created in the image of God. Instinct tells us that He is our maker. This desire in the heart after God changes the life of the individual, not for worse but for better. Sad indeed is the condition of the one who has no desire after God, who does not believe in Him. He who believes in God chooses to follow His way, which is outlined in the Bible, has within his soul a bright hope of life eternal, which is given to those who accept Him and follow Him completely. Man is as nothing before God. "What is man, that thou art mindful of him" and the son of man, that thou visitest him? We are so insignificant. We are counted as dust. "Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance." Isaiah 40:15. Yet this great God in whom we believe and whom we serve, loves us and has tender care for us. He is kind, merciful, gracious, and long-suffering. He longs to reveal Himself to us. He desires that all shall be saved. In this wonderful God, before whom we are as nothing, still unknown to us: If so, shall we not become acquainted with Him now? May we demonstrate daily by the life we live that we believe that there is a God and that He will never leave or forsake us. Sherry