God Arises
The Life We Seek
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puts these questions into words, but still they linger
in the human soul, causing untold anguish and
something welling up with such force that they lead
to insanity.
What this longing stems from is an instinctive
human consciousness of a Lord and Creator.
Ingrained in the subconscious of every human
being lies the thought: “God is my Lord; I am His
servant.” Everyone tacitly makes this covenant on
coming into the world. The idea of a Lord and
Creator— one who watches over and sustains
creation—runs in the veins of every human being.
Until he has found his Lord, man feels himself lost
in a vacuum. William James (1842-1910), an
American philosopher who was one of the founders
of pragmatism, said that “faith is one of the forces
by which men live, and the total absence of it means
collapse.”
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Subconsciously being aware of God, man wants
more than anything to reach God. Above all else, he
desires to hold firm to the Lord he knows in his
heart he cannot do without. But the God he
instinctively is aware of, has yet to appear before
