Should God Take Center Stage In Our Lives ?

The question seems really irrelevant to a lot of people, it seems superstitious and something out of the fantasies!! Yes, there are a lot of people I've come across who ask this question and this irrelevance seems more relevant to an increasing number of people these days.

I was reading this really complex book "Can Man Live Without God?' by Ravi Zacharias, which is kind of an answer to Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophical expression "God Is Dead!" I too have been forced to think about the same question. Should an entity so fanciful, an entity that never really manifests itself in the physical world we see, the many reasons given for why the entity never manifests itself, all the unkindness in the world only seem to intensify the argument against why God has to take center stage in anyone's life.

But here is one question, attempts to find answers to which, really changes the perception of God's role in our lives. The question goes thus...."What is the meaning of all our struggle?" Is it just to stay alive another day so that we can make another generation of human beings? And for what? Why do we even need to care about another generation of human beings? What would they do? When they are just another whimsy flick of evolutionary process, why do we really need to care about them?
The cosmos is so expansive that our planet and even our galaxy are mere specks of dust in this universe. So, does it really matter that we keep struggling to continue our generation on this despicable little speck, that can at any moment be erased?
All these are dangerous ideas but really make sense when there seems to be no sense around our existence and purpose, wait a second, what's that word 'purpose'? There even doesn't seem a meaning to that word and it seems equally fanciful like the word God.

The moment God is taken out of the equation, there isn't any meaning to what we do. There is no reason to show any kindness to the person next to you, there isn't any reason to show the same to your own self. The world we see could just be erased like scribbles on a slate and all suffering would end. This is the greatest question that Nietzsche faced after his triumphal declaration that God is dead. How could someone make sense to all that's happening around? Without a purpose behind all this, all this doesn't make sense at all. 'Purpose' is a very important word, the very word that drew men throughout the ages to get closer to the entity that made us. The only reason why millions of suffering people are still alive is the hope that there is a higher power to redeem them one day from all suffering, and that there is a grand machine in motion, one of the cogs of which is suffering and that there is a meaning to all that's happening. There is an old saying which goes thus........."we understand the importance of something only when it's place is void". The importance of the entity called God also seems evident only when we see the world taking Him out of the equation. Only when God is brought into picture do things start to make sense.

Here is one intriguing fact about atheistically oriented scientific research...the theory of evolution which sparked the idea that there isn't anything of a supernatural force, while being advanced to explain human behavior came to this important question of why humans have traits like sympathy, kindness and a willingness to give up once life for the love of another. What role do these traits have in increasing the odds that humans survive natural selection? An attempt was made by evolutionary biologist George R. Price, who devised the mathematical theory of altruism which made attempts at explaining why organisms show kindness to fellow organisms. But theories couldn't fully explain the real magnitude of kindness that people are capable of. Price, finally unable to bear the brunt of his ideas and the in-congruence they had with the real world, converted to being a New Testament follower and committed suicide, being depressed of not being able to help others enough through his works.

The purpose of our lives and the meaning of all the struggles that we go through only make sense when God is brought into the equation. The reason for having God in our lives only seems important when we understand the dangerous void that would be there without Him. After I have come to understand the void and desperate feelings, I've only come to understand that the most important work of our life to seek God, because, without Him nothing makes sense.