Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote:
God is still in his universe. Our new technological and scientific developments can neither banish him from the microscope compass of the atom nor from the vast, unfathomable ranges of stellar space. Living in a universe in which the distances of some heavenly bodies must be dated in terms of billions of light years, modern man exclaims with the Psalmist of old, “When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars which thou hast ordained; what is man that thou art mindful of him, that thou visitest him?”
I would urge you to give priority to the search for God. Allow his spirit to permeate your being. To meet the difficulties and challenges of life you will need him. Before the ship of your life reaches its last harbor, there will be long, drawn-out storms, howling and jostling winds, and tempestuous seas that make the heart stand still. If you do not have a deep and patient faith in God, you will be powerless to face the delays, disappointments and vicissitudes that inevitably come. Without God, all of our efforts turn to ashes and our sunrises into darkest nights. Without him, life is a meaningless drama in which the decisive scenes are missing. But with him, we are able to rise from tension packed valleys to the sublime heights of inner peace, and find radiant stars of hope against the nocturnal bosom of life’s most depressing nights. St. Augustine was right: “Thou hast created us for thyself, and our heart cannot be quieted till it find repose in thee.” ~Martin Luther King, Jr., All Men Seek God (Kansas City, Missouri: Hallmark Cards, 1968) 6
