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the exercise of faith renews the realness of God to me also. if i let faith lay with being exercised the reality o God can grow dim. i believe that is why there are warnings about neglecting our salvation. not so good to neglect to pray and exercise faith.

I hope I state this accurately ... What makes God real to me is my faith in Him. I choose to believe; and shape my worldview on that fundamental choice. I cannot explicitly prove that God exists"; but I believe it so strongly that it might as well be a fact to me. Bravus asked earlier "which God?" for me it is the God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Moses - and His only begotten Son Jesus Christ. People who do not believe in God choose to not believe in Him; and their worldview is shaped by that fundamental choice. Bottom line (at least for me) is that God is real, whether one chooses to believe or not.

i think of the blind men all touching a different part of the elephant describing the elephant. i think i am all of the blind men, touching a different aspect or quality of God at different times in my life or at different places of need. My God provides for all of my needs, and my needs vary through the day, and from the cradle to the grave. Over the development of my life my needs are changing. What i would draw from God is shifting, and to put all those provisions together with all those needs, yes they draw a picture of me, in a relationship to a providing God. I am not seeing one without the other. Yes we see God through the lens of our being which he created with the potential of knowing him. so many times i wept and my tears were subdued, but not immediately. i had a season of tears flowing. or my tummy was hungry, and i hungered, but food came. or i hungered for God, then as much as i could bear the Spirit came, or i hungered for wisdom, drops of wisdom came, now i am longing for more, more of Christ in my relationships... like Elijah sending his servant to search the sky on Mt. Carmel, and when the servant finally came back and said he saw a small cloud Elijah said run, the rain is coming. I believe the rain is coming. and when i am dying and need more time, and need more air and need relief from pain... it may not come till the resurrection, but indeed, oh yes indeed it will come. God is many things at many times of many needs, He is the provider, sustainer, creator, innovator, re-creator, preserver, cleanser, protector, author, life giver.. and more are you alive? are you forgiven? do you have faith? are you holding up in a long struggle? do you spend time surrounded by nature? are you bearing up in discouragement? are you buoyed up after a long course of more difficult days? are you living insights gained? are you hoping for better days? I offer that these are lenses by which we may glimpse God by faith.