The age old question is, if God created everything then who or what created God? Even the evolutionists have this problem of first cause. Where did anything come from? Matter, energy, the laws of physics and chemistry and Mathematics? Even without God we have this dilemma. Let me share a conclusion I came to many years ago. (I shared this story in “My Search for Meaning Series.”)

It was a clear, crisp winter night in the outback of Australia. I was younger (much younger it was 1975 and I was 21) I was driving a tractor sowing wheat at a place called Lake Cargelligo. It was the dead of night (2am), clear sky, no moon, just millions of stars. I got to thinking about the age-old question – where did God come from. As I contemplated this, over the radio in the tractors cab came the pan flute playing The Lonely Shepherd. That haunting tune still reminds me of that moment.

Here’s a link if you want to listen to it and capture the moment I was in. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orL-w2QBiN8

I stopped the tractor and contemplated. When the song was over, I turned off the radio, stopped the motor, turned out the lights and climbed down out of the cab. I stood in the cool winter stillness and darkness and felt my insignificance. Here I was; a tiny speck of dust, on a speck of a planet circling and insignificant star in an unimportant solar system that belongs to one of the smallest galaxies.

This was my epiphany: As I stood there I realized you can travel out from this planet in a straight line forever! Even if you got to the point where there were no more planets and stars and galaxies, there would still be infinite empty space beyond. Then, I thought you could do this with billions of lines all over the planet in any direction! That means you could travel in a straight line in ANY direction for infinity! That would mean that the universe is without beginning or end in any direction! You could never build a wall and say that is the end of the universe, because there would still be nothing beyond. This could be done in an almost infinite number of directions. Then I said to myself, if the universe can be without beginning or end then God can be the same, and a limited finite mind can never understand the infinite. If we could understand God, He would cease to be God. God has left abundant proof for us to believe in Him, to trust His communication to us and the salvation he has offered us. The purpose of this devotional series is to examine and follow the evidence to where it leads us.