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It is not difficult to believe in the existence of God. In fact, I think it is more difficult to be believe that there is no God.
Just look up at the stars. There is something very powerful who put them there, or started the process to bring them into existence. There is a power that created something out of nothing. What power caused the stuff of the Big Bang to move outward? It didn’t start moving on its own. The answer, of course, is God, the creator and the first cause of everything that we see.
However, if all we do is philosophize about the existence of God, we will never know God’s true nature. Yes, God is all-powerful, all-knowing, all-present, but it is only when God begins to reveal his true self to us can we come to know him as a creator who loved us into existence. God wants us to exist with him for all eternity. God is the one who seeks us out until we let him into our hearts. For, as Jesus said, God is love. He loved us so much that he sent his son to us to redeem us, and give us the possibility of the eternal life he so desires for us.
And, at the heart of our belief as Christians, then, God has also revealed himself to us as one God in three persons — Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
The Father, who is love, sent his Son, to be the face of his love for us, and the love that the Father and the Son have for each other is poured out into the Holy Spirit. This Holy Spirit is given to us to unite us to God, remind us of the teachings of Jesus, and strengthen us as witnesses of the Resurrection.
Yes, there is a God. That’s not too difficult to believe. But that God loves us? This takes faith. So, too, does professing the reality of God as a Trinity of persons. Yet, that is what God has revealed to us. It is what we believe. It is what we teach, and that is what we state every time we recite our creed. It is the statement that defines us as Christians, for “it is the central mystery of Christian faith and life” (Catechism of the Catholic Church, 234).
“May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with all of you” (2 Corinthians 13:13).
Have a blessed week everyone.