GOD IS WITH US

I am 74 years old and my life will soon end. My parents, uncles and aunts have all passed on. My generation is next.

I still struggle with the existence of God and His plan for the human race. The world is suffering at the present time and will suffer more over the next century. There is climate change, global warming, floods, wild fires, overpopulation, the COVID 19 pandemic and ongoing wars.

There are those who believe in evolution and deny the hand of God. Living creatures and plants magically grow wings and fins over millions of years. There is wondrous magic in the reality that all living creatures have DNA on the same basic pattern.

There is DNA in human beings, lizards and cockroaches. All have basic needs that involve nutrition, reproduction, respiration and  locomotion. All need water, oxygen and the removal of carbon dioxide. Most gain sustenance from plants.

Are there aliens in the myriads of galaxies? Do all exist by the hand of God? There are TV reports of Unidentified Flying Objects with occasional reported sightings of living alien beings.

There is belief recorded in ancient hieroglyphics of alien craft and aliens who came to earth to guide and teach the ancient people. There is much that we do not know.

I struggle with the existence of an all-seeing God who hears every prayer, confession, adulterous thought, blasphemous utterance and plea for forgiveness.

There would be billions of bones in graves over millions of years. We are told that the dead will arise. Does God have an amazing all-seeing eye that knows the hearts and minds of every person of every age?

He hears the cries of the oppressed, of those drowned and lost in the sea, killed in wars and died of pandemic plague. There is the belief that the soul never dies.

Some believe that we rise to be with God as soon as we die. Others read the Bible to learn that the dead know nothing. Others believe that we rest in our graves until God comes again through Jesus Christ.

Others believe that they will never awake and stop ticking forever like a clock no longer wound up.

I ask God for forgiveness on my broken marriage in Australia. My work with HIV/AIDS is my way of giving peace to my soul.

There must be a God who gives us love, caring and concern for others. Greater love hath no man or woman but they lay down their lives for others.