Ultimate Questions – Introduction
Monday, February 21st, 2000
Life is full of questions. Some are trivial, some more serious — and some tremendously important. Even as you read these words you may have questions about your health, your financial situation, your job, your family or your future.
But the greatest, the ultimate questions, are about God and your relationship to him. Nothing in life is more important than this. Good health, financial stability, secure employment, a contented family and a hopeful future are all things that people want. Yet even these are temporary and eventually pointless unless you have a living relationship with God, one that is clear and certain — and will last for ever.
This is the fundamental question. If God does not exist, searching for him is pointless: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is.
Creation is one of the main ways in which he does so. The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament showeth his handiwork. The sheer size of the universe and its amazing balance, variety and beauty reveal a great deal about the God who made it.
This is obviously the next question to be faced. To acknowledge that God exists is one thing, and to acknowledge him in the general sense that God speaks to us in creation and through the pages of the Bible is another. But we need to know more.