I think proof of God is built into everything - I really, truly do. "The heavens proclaim the glory of God - the skies proclaim the work of his hands..." everything, everywhere evidences God in some way or another.
Recently, I was thinking about this in the context of our joy. Especially with Christmas coming up, the notion of giving - the joy of giving - seems peculiar to me. What evolutionary process or naturalistic social construct might have taken us to a place where we find greater delight in giving of ourselves than receiving? Even secular studies have shown that those who regularly give of their time, money and other resources live longer, experience greater happiness in life and overall enjoy greater purpose, meaning and pleasure.
From a naturalistic standpoint, it really doesn't make sense. Perhaps an anthropologist might contradict me (I don't know many, so I feel pretty safe in this post!), but I can't conceive of a natural reason why this desire and pleasure of giving is so built in to our beings.
Other than the fact that we are created in God's image.
I mean, that solves it, doesn't it? We are created as the image bearers of God; our purpose is to reflect him fully and to find our delight and joy in representing him. And who else has found greater delight in giving than the one who gave his very son for the salvation of the world? Who else has greater demonstrated true sacrificial giving that God the father?
It seems to me, as we enter in to this holiday season, that our very desire to give gifts is itself evidence of God's glory - and of his desperate love for us.
What a God we serve!
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