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Originally Posted by aron
But does God care? I don't know. I guess that's why they call it faith.
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I feel I know he cares, but I can't prove he cares. I can just give witness to what I've seen. And that's all the Lord asked us to do. He never said go out and prove things.
One way to look at it is if God doesn't care, then what are we doing here debating? Why are we wasting our time on a God who doesn't care?
So to me, believing God cares must be axiomatic. Because in reality you cannot function believing he doesn't. That is a life without hope.
That, combined with my experience of his care, is enough for me. Does that mean he does everything I wish he would. No. Does that mean my circumstances don't sometimes seem pointlessly arbitrary. No.
Life often seems to say that God doesn't care. But when I consider it from the standpoint of eternity, of what really matters, of my closeness to him and his intent for me to get to know him, and not from the temporal things of this life, then there is no doubt in my mind he cares. He obviously is trying to do a work in me, and if I cooperate with that great things happen within me, while my outward circumstances might still be somewhat disappointing, or perhaps even suggesting that he doesn't care.
Put simply: Faith is believing God cares, knows what he's doing and is in control, regardless of what your senses tell you.
I would say your decision to smile at the lady was an act of faith, faith that at the core of things there must be something good, perhaps even a God who cares.