Some would say, “You Christians worship God because worshipping God meets an emotional and spiritual need.”

I agree.

But then you would go further and say, “Seth, this God you worship does not exist. You and Christians create Him by power of imagination.”

But I have a question. If God is not real, then where does the need to worship Him come from? That’s like saying, “My body craves protein but protein does not exist. Or better yet, my body craves chocolate—and we know chocolate exists!”

In her fantastic book entitled, Is the Bible Intolerant? Sexist? Oppressive? Homophobic? Outdated? Irrelevant? Amy Orr-Ewing makes the remarkable note that in a Canadian survey among young people, the majority stated that their greatest longing in life was to find someone they could believe in.

When a patient shows signs of malnutrition, the nutritionist is not presumptuous to prescribe a healthy diet, is he?

When a college student craves someone of the opposite sex to make love to and share life with, her mother is not presumptuous to suggest marriage, is she?

And when you desire to make your life count for something bigger than just working, eating, and sleeping, is it presumptuous to suggest the living God of the universe?

Look higher than heaven, lower than hell, farther than the most distant star, deeper than the darkest place in the ocean and you will find nothing more satisfying, more fulfilling, or more coherent than praising Yahweh, the God of the universe.