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. 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.
Mahatma Gandhi
