For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. (…) This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed.

John 3:16,19-20

When I don’t know what quote to use for my Daily Quote page, I often read the Bible. So far I have always found something inspiring to write about within the first page or two. The same thing happened today.

I really love these verses because they practically read my mind. Months ago I was thinking about why some people don’t believe in God or his Word when its existence is proven on multiple accounts, or to say at least it is strongly plausible that He exists. Then when you start searching from at least the mindset that He is possible or plausible you will surely find Him. From that point onward, His existence will go from “plausible” to “certain”.

The reason I mentioned this verse read my mind is because I came to the same conclusion even though I never heard this verse up until now. I realized that people are afraid of the possibility of God’s existence because as the verse says all of the evil deeds they did will be exposed. Some people have convinced themselves that what they are doing is okay and finding out that it is not okay and that they will be judged is unacceptable.

The topic that got me to this conclusion was abortion – I was shocked and couldn’t understand how people don’t realize that that’s a living being, a human developing, not just some part of the woman’s body. Then we realized (my wife and I were discussing it and she helped me reach this conclusion) that they don’t want to believe that it’s a human being because they couldn’t live with what they did, or encouraged others to do. It’s a psychological defense mechanism because we all know how hard is to deal with the fact that you killed someone, now imagine dealing with the fact that you killed an innocent child, not to mention YOUR child.

They have to lie to themselves, otherwise they would collapse mentally, as some people did that later realized what they did. I remember now one ex-abortionist that I watched speak on YouTube. His name is Dr. Anthony Levatino. During his career, he conducted over 1200 abortions, he realized what he was doing a day after his young daughter died in a car accident. He said that he believes in God and hopes to one day see his daughter when he dies, but what scares him tremendously is that the day he sees his daughter he will also see the 1200 babies he killed.

He is having a hard time dealing with this fact and it wasn’t even his babies, imagine how it must be for the people who abort their own babies. No wonder they feel the need to separate from God, they are afraid of their actions and are running from them. I’m not saying what they did was right or that they should be left to live in their delusion, we definitely must help them meet God again so that their souls get a chance to be saved. Our time is running out.

But abortion is just one of the examples, they are examples of rejecting God or twisting His teaching to fit our agenda all around us. People just don’t like being held responsible for their actions and don’t want their actions to have any consequences, that’s why those people always mock us believers saying that we are blindly following “some guy with the beard in the sky” and that our God is using us and controlling us. He is not controlling us, and for all of us who have been there, we know the joy in living by His teachings. Let’s try to share that joy with others, let us be an example for others, maybe that will help them meet God again.