There is no God

This morning, as I exercised out on my balcony overlooking my neighbour’s garden as I do most days, a bird’s flight movement in direct line of my sight drew my attention to a nest that it had built on a twine hanging from the tree that dominated that garden. Now, how was it that I had not noticed the nest before till today? It reminded me of the other times when similar nests had been built on the overhanging vines on my other balcony overlooking the pond. One day, it was not there, the next it was. It is an intricate process – the amount of twigs and whatever binding material these smart little things use to build their homes. They can’t build it in an instance. It was almost as if God had blinded our eyes to the nest-building process to give protection to the nest-builders so that they could do so undisturbed. It makes me think of the bible verse in Matt 6:26, “Look at the birds of the air, that they do not sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth much more than they”?

And as I consider how we in turn are, as the psalmist says, “fearfully and wonderfully made” (Psalm 139:14), I wonder how it is that people can deny the existence of God. I have always maintained that doctors especially, as they study the inner workings of the human body, and how our bodily functions come together, have no choice but to acknowledge that we are not accidentally put together. We have been marvelously created by one no less than the Maker of heaven and earth. And in that knowledge, we can declare, along with the psalmist “When I consider Thy heavens, the work of Thy fingers, The moon and the stars, which Thou hast ordained, What is man, that Thou dost take thought of him, and the son of many, that Thou dost care for him?”

And who is this who declares there is no God? It is as the psalmist says in Psalm 14:1: The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God”.