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Essay: "God"

by Teddy Chitwood
People spend their lives searching for answers, contentment that contain something that's missing from their life that would make it complete. Going from one thing to another in succession obtaining this, doing that and still they find only a restlessness inside themselves, something unfulfilled. Money, success, notoriety, sex, drugs, love; the list goes on and on but always it seems that whatever we want or the feelings we need are just out of our grasp. I know I've tried these "lesser gods" most of my life. In all my searching I never honestly sought God with all my heart. I guess a person must go through a certain amount of pain and hopelessness before he realizes it's going to take someone much greater to help him. I think it's at this point when all of your pride is played out, that he finds you.

I had a misconception early on in life that in order for God to take notice of you, you had to be almost perfect. But you never know just how hard it is to be "good" until you have given it your best try. I failed miserably. God knows this when Christ was on earth he even said he came to save the lost not the "righteous." He hung out with the sinners and tax collectors and was condemned by the religious.

The bible says that we hear God through a still small voice and I still believe you can. It's just that we are tuned into other things such as jobs, acquiring cars homes or chasing that high that Gods voice becomes a static noise in the background.

But once you turn your attention towards him and you see his power at work it's a very humbling event in your life He's in the smile of that lady that expresses her thankfulness that God heard her prayers that her son would come home from Iraq.

He's in the laughter of a little boy at Christmas when he finds under the tree a present from his daddy who's been in prison the past year.

It's the glow in the young mothers face because she's able to be home with her children on their birthday instead of still in bondage to addiction of drugs and in rehab their last one.

You see I've had people argue with me over and over about God but when you look at their life style it just doesn't add up. Because once you have really formed God and came into the presence of the Almighty and get a glimpse of eternity, he enters into you and there is no way you couldn't be transformed.

This is the God I need this is the God I want and none other after all these years. This is the God that I have.