Believing in God takes Faith. Oh yeah.

Hebrews 11:5 says "And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him (NIV)."

Sometimes I think that I forget that beleiving in God is an act of faith. I draw comfort from God's admission of this fact, as voiced in the letter of Hebrews. My Dad also reminded me. You have to beleive in God to see God. God is there, no doubt. In fact, his presence is undeniable and real, but only to those who beleive. Without belief, without faith in God, its easy to slip into cynicism and to wonder why God is so inconscipuously absent from so much that goes on. It's not that God is absent. It's that our eyes have been clouded by rebelliousness so that we don't see God very well. Maybe instead of praying for God's presence, which is already a reality, I should pray for greater faith. I'm afraid to admit this, but sometimes I feel as though I'm only one mile past the doubt marker with ninety-nine miles of the faith journey to go.