It's Really Not As Complicated As You're Making It Out to Be

I do dimly perceive that while everything around me is ever-changing

ever-dying there is

underlying all that change

a living power that is changeless

that holds all together

that creates

dissolves

and recreates.

That informing power or spirit is God

and since nothing else that I see merely through the senses can or will persist

He alone is.

And is this power benevolent or malevolent?

I see it as purely benevolent.

For I can see

that in the midst of death

Life persists

in the midst of untruth

Truth persists

in the midst of darkness

Light persists.

Hence I gather

that God is Life

Truth

Light

He is Love.

He is the supreme good.

But He is no god who merely satisfies the intellect

if He ever does.

God to be God must rule the heart and transform it.

He must express Himself in every smallest act of His votary.

It is proved not by extraneous evidence

but in the transformed conduct and character of those who have felt the real presence of God within.

To reject this evidence is to deny oneself.

This realization is preceded by an immovable faith.

He who would

in his own person

test the fact of God's presence can do so by a living faith

and since faith itself cannot be proved by extraneous evidence

the safest course is to believe in...; the law of Truth and Love.

Exercise of faith will be the safest where there is a clear determination summarily to reject all that is contrary to Truth and Love.

I confess that I have no argument to convince through reason

faith transcends reason.

All that I can advise is not to attempt the impossible.