No snack, no concert, no sporting event, no movie, no series, no text, no class, no degree, no success, no self-help, no friend, no income level, no savings account, no president, no patriotism, no military action, or no religion can set you free from anxiety and bring you long-lasting inner peace. Only the supernatural God can do that.
There is Someone supernatural who wants to produce ongoing peace in your inner life. Will you let Him?
God’s nature is supernatural. You can’t get close to God without encountering the supernatural activity of His Spirit. (Zechariah 4:6) When you do experience God, you can either quench His Spirit (1Thessalonians 5:19) or be led by His Spirit. (Romans 8:14)
God is eternal with no beginning and no end. He created all of creation — nature and everything that physically exists, but He’s not a part of it. He’s beyond nature. He is supernatural.
If there was a big bang blast, God created the super compressed small blob of subatomic matter and then blew it to smithereens. Then He individually directed each one of the uncreated neutrons, protons, electrons, quarks, fermions, leptons, bosons, and gluons that the hand-sized blob somehow mysteriously contained, to fly into their proper places and arrange themselves into the universe and all that it physically contains. But was all that physically exists really randomly created by an uncaused fireworks show? Who or what created the supposed densely condensed material and caused it to vastly expand and turn itself into everything that physically exists?
When we look away from planet earth and behold the night sky, we’re observing inexplicably more than the light from the uncaused explosion of uncreated subatomic matter that unguidedly assembled itself into stars, planets, asteroids, comets, galaxies, and nebulae. We are seeing an infinitesimally teeny, tiny speck of the beauty and the grandeur of God’s creation! O how small we are!
Your body is physical. It had a beginning called conception. The life of your body will eventually come to an end in death. Then it will finally decompose and disappear into dust. Yet your body isn’t all of you. Something within your body is right now aware that you are reading this. Your brain isn’t just electronically processing what I have written. You are consciously pondering it. What is that conscious part of you that no machine has? It’s your eternal soul. It’s who and what you really are. Your soul is your never-ending identity.
Did an uncreated little blob really blow itself up and cause everything that physically exists to come into existence? Hum. Sounds farfetched and anxiety producing to me. However, trusting in and daily relying on the Creator allows Him to create great inner peace within me!
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