The contingency of our existence declares the providence of God. Which one of us will grasp our next breath? Who will produce global photosynthesis and provide the next meal? Who will maintain our proper distance from the sun? We are contingent beings, totally dependent upon God’s merciful provision for our being. Acts 17:25 says, “God gives to all life, breath, and all things” and verse 28, “in Him we live and move and have our being.” Thomas Aquinas rightly noticed that the contingency of our existence cries out the necessity of God’s existence. I would add that it also reveals to us God’s common grace. He is gracious to send the rain upon the just and the unjust. He is benevolent to grant us the ability to enjoy love, kindness, and beauty. It would be logically absurd to deny the necessary existence of God, but I do not wish only to say that God exists. The cry of the human heart does not stop there. We need more. Who will make God personal to us? Who will comfort us in our times of sorrow? Who will rescue us from the trouble sin delivers? The Bible speaks without equivocation to these questions and so much more. For Colossians 2:9 tells us, “For in Christ dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily” and John 1:14 says, “And the Word (Christ, who is divine) became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.” It does not require any great leap of faith to believe that God exists. The eternally necessary question is this, “will you receive His grace and truth which comes only in the person of Jesus Christ?”
