Here is the catch.

We want to experience a Force greater than ourselves.  We are a society lost in our own humanness, despairing at the great tragedy of our world.  We are afraid to believe that there is nothing higher than us - nothing for us but a short life span and death, buried in the earth, left to whither away while the universe dissolves.  Some don't believe there is a God, because they have not truly seen Him, they have not really felt His goodness or His love, they have not been physically affirmed of His presence because of a lack of lightening bolts or supernatural happenings.

Here's the thing, and what I was thinking about earlier today - we cannot experience these truths about God unless we come to a point in which we realize our utter hopelessness, or need for Someone other than ourselves, and run into His loving arms, full throttle and with no regrets or second thoughts or a single doubt.  We cannot experience Him truly, and cannot really know Him and His character intimately until we throw aside our petty debates, check our doubts and logic and worldliness at the door and embrace the mere possibility of Him.  There's the catch, and why all who claim there is no God because they have not yet seen His goodness, will never witness it - let alone experience it - simply waiting for it to happen.  And still with their hearts still hardened!  God is a subtle initiator, I have read this Truth in the Word and experienced it through the writing of His law on my heart.  He is not One to force His way into our hearts, if we want to experience Him, that has to be our decision to let Him in. We cannot hear Him unless we are first simply open to the possibility of Him, until we soften our hearts towards Him, until we quiet down and seek Him, listening for His beckoning whisper...

Until we at least reach that point of an open-mind, how could this entire generation ever truly know God and experience Him in a saving way?