Truth

Cells of a common water plant under a microscope

My absolute favorite part of teaching science was teaching 6th grade students to use a microscope. Soon after this they could discover for themselves the microscopic functioning parts of a living plant cell and the microscopic zoo in a drop of pond water. Experiencing their excitement over these eye opening discoveries was beautiful. In case you didn't get to experience this, here is a video of pond water through a microscope.

As a science teacher, I have had the privilege of learning some of the astonishing details of the makeup of living things and Earth’s precise ‘Goldilocks’ location in this vast universe. It takes a much bigger stretch of the imagination to think that this amazing detail was made possible by some cosmic accident than to accept the fact that there is a Divine Designer. The truth is that there is a God who created this universe, solar system, earth, and every living thing in it. 

It is also a fact that God, in an act of love, sent his Son in the form of a human to this Earth over two thousand years ago. There is irrefutable evidence that Jesus walked on this earth, lived among humans, taught, and performed miracles while here.  There is irrefutable evidence that He was killed by being crucified in an agonizing and humiliating death on a cross.  His body was buried and after three days, he was seen alive, walking, talking and eating. And over a course of forty days after his death, it is documented that he was seen by well over 500 eye witnesses.  This is a feat that only God himself could engineer. To this day, as hard as they try, no one can disprove this fact. 

The purpose of God sending his son here was a mercy mission to give us a way out of our certain failure and destruction. 

John 3:16-18 ESV 

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. 17For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. 18Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. 

He gave us the choice to accept or reject this grace. I have chosen to accept his mercy and now there is evidence in my daily life of his presence in me through the Holy Spirit. Without him, I am misguided, timid, incredibly selfish and self-centered, suffering from every malady inherent to a selfish lifestyle. Now, when I choose to listen to Him, he gives me divine power over this selfishness, as well as love for others and self-discipline to boldly pursue him in my life. So my daily walk before and after following him is evidence to me that the Holy Spirit is in my life now.  

This is the evidence and the truth. But don’t just take my word for it. You can search it for yourself. Please test God, the Bible and Jesus. Then you can chose to accept it or deny it based on fact, not hearsay.