Do you trust the Lord?
SAINT AUGUSTINE says, “Work as though everything depends on you, and pray as though everything depends on God.”
Atheists do not believe in God. They don’t know what they are missing: God’s help, His actual grace and presence as He works with us; His daily union and friendship with us; His gift of His companionship with us; His wisdom and guidance all day, all night long; His love and clear path as we struggle through this valley of tears. What else do you want?
Though spiritual, the Lord is actually present. He is felt, known, experienced every single day and night if we open our inner eyes to see, if we open our inner ears to hear. He is a spiritual being though we cannot feel, touch, hear, taste, or see. We know that He is around. He is not contained by space and time. He is not physically tangible. But He is present.
If we do not believe in the reality of the soul, in spiritual faculties and an interior life, then there is no awareness of God and other beings. Then we have to conclude that life is a temporary matter; that there is no soul, no life after death. We would also be devoid of celestial beings such as angels and archangels, seraphims and cherubims, Heaven and hell, God the maker of Heaven and ear th. There will not be any justice and mercy after life. Living on Earth, and earth’s realities would be all that we have.
This world is so full of injustices, lack of love, cruelties, hatred, and violence. We would have only pagan practices such as “eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die;” grab what you can today enjoy yourself. There would be a philosophy of selfishness – “I”“me”“myself” is all that matters; there is no consequence to our way of acting and being, during the course of our day and our life unto death on earth.