Man's capacity for God and God's plan for man.
Compendium 1-10 Scripture Psalm 63: 1-8
1.Possessions alone can not bring happiness.
2. God himself, in creating man in his own image has written upon his heart the desire to see him.
3. Even if this desire is often ignored, God never ceases to draw man to himself because only in God will he find happiness for which he never stops searching.
4. Questions about evil, suffering, and the meaning of life which may seem to be inconsistent with a loving God, all the more indicate an intense longing for God deep within us.
5. This is God's plan: to go in search of us despite our sinfulness and our substitution of possessions and false loves for his true and everlasting love
6. Even believers often fall into the trap of living as if God does not exist.
7. There is an inbuilt longing for God: "You have made us for yourself and our heart is restless until it rests in you" (St Augustine of Hippo) The human spirit is made for love - and ultimately for the infinite love of God. Often we search for this love in all the wrong places but the universal and relentless search of the human heart for infinite, perfect and unconditional Love cannot be denied.
8. The harmony, order, beauty, and purposefulness of the universe demand an intelligent creator.
9. Reason alone cannot arrive at the answer. Reason must be enlightened by True Faith in order to know the True God in a world which often associates God with hatred, vengeance and violence.
10. God has revealed himself wonderfully throughout history for those who seek him sincerely and humbly. Jesus revealed the beneficent creator in the parable of the lilies of the field.
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