A Relationship With God.

This is part of a HUGE paper that i wrote in inswer to a question that a friend of mine had about God. hope you enjoy it.

...Have you ever had a person in your life that at first you simply detested? In fact you hate them so much that pretty much anything they say to you is seen as a direct threat or it is somehow directed towards you, even if its really not. You begin to loathe all of their actions and attitudes simply writing them off as evil. Then in some cases, by shear coincidence you end up talking with this person and getting to know them only to find out that they are not only cool people, but in actuality not evil at all. I feel that some people have this type of view of God. Everything seems evil since they don’t know him intimately; since they have no relationship with him. And until they do that (if they ever do) they will not get to know how amazing He really is. Much like those things that irritated you about your former adversary turned friend, when you look at God after you have reconciled to him, you come to find out that those things you hated, you begin to love and understand. When you have a relationship with God you can see his goodness, his personality, his characteristics and his love. You have things that you may not understand about him but you trust him to be good and with good intentions. Also, since you know him personally you trust that one day, as you come to know him better even those things that you do not understand will eventually be revealed to you...