Did you, as a child, or do your children now, ever ask the question: "Where did God come from?"; or alternatively: "Who made God?"
If you did ask the question, did you get a satisfying answer? And can you satisfy your children?
The trouble is that this is the wrong question. We are so used to living in a time line, in which yesterday has gone, today is here and tomorrow never comes, that we try to put God into the same time line
Shakespeare did not write himself into his own plays, nor did Ian Fleming take part in the James Bond books or films.. They were the writers, the creators of their characters
In the same way, God is the supreme, the ultimate Creator. He made time itself!
When Moses met with God and was told to go back to Egypt and ask Pharoah to release the Israelites, he asked God what his name was, and God answered: "I AM", or "I am that I am". So in a sense, God is the verb to be, the present tense.
Had someone or something been before Him, to "make" him, that someone or something would have been God. This is illogical.
God, then is outside time. In fact, God is also outside space, so we should not even regard Him as being "here", It is we who are "here", and just as God created time, so He also created mankind, and He created us "good". Unfortunately we have all turned "bad" - none of us have measured up to the standard set for us, we have all lost the way.
This is the reason our website is named "eternity4u", because God inexplicitly still loves us and wants us to enjoy Him both in our present lives and in eternity.
Jesus once said: "You must be born again". with the implication that while we may be alive physically, spiritually we are dead, alienated from God until we open our lives to God's Spirit who alone can plant the seed of eternal life within us.
All it takes is our trust, our trust that when Jesus died for our sins and rose again to return to his Father, he opened the way for us also.
Then, just as children have to be nurtured in order that they grow, so we need nurturing to grow into the people God intended us to be. As Paul put it, for us to "grow up into Christ"
Eternity, you see, starts here and now, when we accept God's grace and allow Him to start the process of growing into our lives.
So do not let yourself be put off by those who advertise: "There is probably no God!" God is a much more likely source of life than some chemical reaction that suddenly produced a self-reproducing strand of DNA in some primeval soup! Information is the product of mind, and this universe is the product of the Divine mind. And you are made in his image and are the object of his love.
Someone once said: There is nothing you can do to make God love you more, and there is nothing you can do that could make Hom love you less - His love is unconditional. Trust Him!