by Sandra Elizabeth

Created on: May 14, 2009   Last Updated: May 17, 2009

You've been let go from your job, have been unemployed for months and are now on the verge of losing your home to the bank or maybe you watch everything you've worked so hard to obtain over the past 35 years go up in flames, as you lose your home to a fire. Perhaps you don't even have a home (never have) or could be the home you're in is an abusive one and your bruises give you doubt. Where you dwell, has everything to do with whether or not you believe in God. You'll often hear celebrities say how blessed are (Oprah says it all the time).

A loved one dies suddenly, he/she was the love of your life and their death has left you devastated or maybe their demise wasn't untimely, maybe you've been suffering through a long drawn out illness with a loved one and you've become despondent. This state of despondence makes it very difficult to believe in God. Perhaps this period of your life you're going through is so draining that (at times) it seems as if you have no more tears left to cry. What you endure plays a huge part in your belief in God. When good stuff happens most believe that there is a God and that He loves us. When bad stuff happens, they don't and there's not.

Your face has been considerably scarred by a car accident or worse, it has left you paralyzed or (just as worse) maybe your drunk driving is responsible for the passenger's paralysis/scars. Contemplation, at this point, becomes time's best friend. You have a lot of it on your hands and use it to assess your life; the life you had before the accident and the life you see ahead for yourself after it. It's this second part that will challenge your belief in God. You'll either think that He caused the accident or that He let it happen and it doesn't matter which; these thoughts or similar ones to their effect, will taunt you into eventually disbelieving in Him altogether (if you let them).

The reasons not to believe in God certainly tower those to believe and have faith in Him; there are so many reasons not to believe, I could write all night and come up with some more in the morning (day after day). If you're looking for reasons not to believe in God, watch the news, read the paper or recount your sorrows. You'll find them. In fact, you won't be able to miss them but if you're looking for reasons to believe in God, turn off the news, put down the paper and put your sorrows behind you, where they'll forever (by the grace of God) stay.

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