Time and again we read news of disasters real or just averted or some other type of dangerous situations and how people later describe their feelings and reactions. One of the most common thing to hear is that people call out to God for protection.

Experience enlightens us that when people face a critical situation— when they feel that they are simply helpless to handle it—they cry out to God. This proves that the concept of God is interwoven in human nature. Every human being is potentially aware of God’s existence.

The purpose of inviting people to God is to turn this potential into a reality. Inviting others towards God is not something separate from the human personality. When one is called towards God, one is actually being called towards something that is part of one’s own nature.

Man has an innate need for something to depend upon in this world, something which he can look up to. To believe in God is to look up to Him alone, while disbelief is to live in veneration of others besides Him.

Man has an innate need for something to depend upon in this world, something which he can look up to. To believe in God is to look up to Him alone.

In ancient times, awe of natural phenomena, such as the moon and the sun dominated people’s lives. In the modern age, however, man has become more materialistic, finding fulfilment in such things as wealth, and the greatness of other human beings. Whatever the object of his veneration may be, man is satisfying an instinctive urge in looking up to these things, and depending upon them. There is a natural urge to seek the truth.

To truly believe in God is to find the true answer to the human search for a superior. It is to see through superficial forms, the ultimate reality that lies hidden within all things.

A believer is one who is not beguiled by the outward splendour of worldly things. He realizes that everything has been created by God. He is not overawed by things of material grandeur, because he knows that they, like him, have been created by God. He does not look to mortals for fulfilment of his needs, for he knows that they themselves are helpless before God—that all are in truth His humble servants.

He continues his journey seeking and passing by all creation till he reaches the Creator himself.

A believer is one who acknowledges that everything is from God. Seeing that he has no power in this world, he looks to God for help and protection. The beauty of this world serves to remind him of God’s beauty; the greatness of natural phenomena impresses on him the greatness of the One who created them. So absorbed is he in the glory of God that he loves nothing more than to spend his time in pure thoughts and actions.

A believer is one who acknowledges that everything is from God. Seeing that he has no power in this world, he looks to God for help and protection.

To believe in God is to see the invisible force behind visible objects. This requires special vision, enabling one to penetrate superficial forms and perceive the reality of all things. One endowed with such vision sees God everywhere; he looks only to God as great. He submits entirely to God, and trusts in Him alone. So engrossed in God’s overpowering greatness does he become that all worldly things fade into insignificance in his sight.