Why does man have a desire for God?

God has placed a desire for himself in every person.

"You have made us for yourself, and our heart is restless until it rests in you" (St. Augustine).

I think that we are very hard wired toward God. I have found out in my life that NOTHING else gives me the pleasure the same way as loving God and His Word and helping others.

Many people see God as this hateful monster who desires to limit our freedom. Once we have a personal and life saving and life changing personal relationship with God we have tasted something what is true. And the Truth will set us free.

I believe this life is not all there is, and that is why we have the hunger that cannot be satisfied apart form God. We are made to last, and that is why our heart's desire is to find the perfect place. : )

I'm not sure I would characterize it as a desire as much as I'd say it is a "need." Some men have the desire for God, but we all have a need for Him. As someone else pointed out, without Him you just end up getting all screwed up and your life all messed up because you have to put something or someone in that "place" in your life. And if you don't put God there, well, it isn't going to be pretty.

Everything else I would say has already been said by:

Monte54

timjim

Isabella

Michala

James O (that is exactly what I have said to people before)

Barach

Melody Rose

Bruce

SG

Liz

Soulguy

Kerilyn

Annie C

Thanks you guys! Great answers which I would like to have said myself. :)

Desire...

Well personally, I'm sick of being put down for my beliefs. I have a strong desire for God, and I think no matter how far back you go, even past the Big Bang Theory, evolution, creationism, anything, it all HAD to START somewhere. Thus the Lord, but I think as humans it is hard for us sometimes to believe that there is something beyond ourselves that is able to do all things (God), thus are the denials of any existence of Him at all. We all have a desire to be close to Him, but when we discover something that our inferior human minds cannot fully understand doubt and disbelief can sink in, and it takes off of the focus of the main goal. God is ours, we belong to him. He does exist, and just because we are asked to believe things on faith, not human understanding, many people have a problem with that. I think life is not over after our worldly existence. We desire God because we yearn for His comfort and everlasting life. It all comes down to faith.

I truly believe that God placed a desire for himself in every person.

Sort of like an interior communion.

Proofs for God's existence come from arguments which converge, convince and provide ways for man to know God.

No idea.

Complete mystery to me.

In fact, I don't think there is one until something happens to reveal Him to you.

A person can go to church everyday and feel like they are banging their heads against a brick wall, trying every formula there is to "gain access".

Then you give up and go live your life, thown in with the anonymous multitudes, and there, recieve more understanding and compassion through betrayal and tyranny than you ever could through love and pampering.

People, I find, for the most part, have difficulty defining what God is, let alone, WHO God is. We all struggle within a veil. But sometimes, there's tears in the veil, and we get glimpses of something that's much bigger than us.

I don't know if I have a desire for God so much as I have a hope for Him. You know, the Good God. The Beautiful God. The Gentle God.

But in the meantime, I must live my life, and as I grow older, it seems I must live my life faster and faster.

The desire for God is written in the human heart, because man is created by God and for God; and God never ceases to draw man to himself. Only in God will he find the truth and happiness he never stops searching for:

Mankind has a great longing to have things under control. In earlier eras the lack of control was incredibly apparent, but the use of faith was still very easy. As we learn more about the world and the universe, our need for faith is diminished while our understanding and 'control' has barely moved. Common humans still have that desire and need for 'someone' to be in control of the unknown. What I am glad to see these days are more learned individuals still recognizing that God exists and are beginning to speak about their own thoughts.

It's the desire for happiness and the need of a refuge in times of total anguish.

"[...] it is just no good asking God to make us happy in our own way without bothering about religion. God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing." C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

God bless!

God is the fast-track to purpose - at least at the outset. God has made us for a reason! So we can just sit on our tails and await his will. Fabulous - and passive, really passive. Pray for him to reveal his role for his and have a sit-down and watch the telly.... No, we need to figure out our purpose, no matter who is at the helm, because the last time I checked, the people who "regularly and personally talk to God" tend to also commit adultery...so that is not probably God they were hearing, eh? No, God does not appear in a shower of gold or a burning bush and tell us our major, or the thesis we are meant for, or even which job to apply for. We are expected to figure it out on our own, which is a vast disappointment for what is, essentially, a very lazy group of primates who can feel immense self-actuallization by flinging their excrement at others (remember High School - US reference - ?) So man would love to have a higher calling, just to make us a little better than the other crap flingers aroung us...who can fault that? "Yeah, verily, in the name of God almighty, I heave this steaming pile at Angela, who has caused my Lord - and me - great angst this week..." - you get the idea, yes? So we all want God to make us the alpha in the pack and crush the people we hate (simply dislike, actually)..but He gave that up ages ago (huge mistake) and so we just wait for him to send the people we dislike into eternal damnation, or a least an inconvenient and humiliating visit to the emergency room (g'bye, Angela, serves you right!)

Basically we want God to dirty His hands, flinging the same poo we have been hefring for eons and eons...oh, the arm grows so weary...

LOL

Every human being is born with the desire for the love of God in his heart, Every human beings heart is searching for God. We believe that there is the Love of God leading us in our activities. Our hearts are not at rest until it rest i God, said a famous saint.