Why should you believe in a GOD

Why should you believe in a GOD when you can just do things yourself?
I was asked this question in the past and I admit when I was asked this question I didn’t know how to answer it, in addition I came to understand that at point on our walks with GOD where we are confronted with the worlds view and they ask a question which I would personify as standing on both sides of line.
You have on side of the line a non-believer and of course on the opposing side you have a believer, id that non believer asks a question which is answered by faith and they have none; well of course they aren’t going to get the meaning of the answer. Now before a Christian understands this they will likely get quite frustrated in the fact they what constitutes a “good answer” to you doesn’t necessarily carry as much weight to a non-believer.
Now the first thing I want to say about this is that this although it is kind of hard to understand is a good thing. The bible teaches that when a person is saved by Christ’s grace that he has a change of mind from that of the world to that of Christ. Jesus said to the decuples that he would lift the veil of understanding that they would know the meaning of the truth and to the non- believes GOD would send strong delusions that they would believe the lie. What does this tell us?
If you are speaking to a non-believer they won’t understand you on matters of faith because by definition as non-believers they do in fact believe the lie. The lie of course being that GOD isn’t real.
Therefore if what you said made sense completely to a non-believer and if your statements of your own faith do carry the same weight as the same statements would with a fellow Christian then the person you were taking too would already be saved, they would already be a believer.
It’s important to recognize as a new creation who is born again and has the holy spirit and Jesus to help you find the righteous path that the no believer does not have that an they are in that state of existence at least to themselves alone and to themselves they are the one doing things because they don’t understand what it means to be still and see the things of GOD happening all around them.
If you, or I can even go a step further and say “When you “ were not yet saved and you didn’t understand the fact that everything that you do from the first breath you take in the morning to the last thing you do before bed and everything in between is simply impossible without GOD , well then you would likely feel the same way and take ownership of everything that happened in your life as being either your own triumph or your own failure, because you didn’t know god then you had no idea probably of the truth.
No to get back to the actual question I was asked re stated” why should you believe in God, What’s the point, you can take care of yourself”? Well of course as a Christina this question may vex you and it may simply break your heart that someone is in such darkness that they don’t even know the most rudimentary answer to such a basic question.
I have read that faith is a blessing, and for a long time I thought of it more as a concept that when I have faith then I receive the blessing, but now I think of faith itself as the blessing. Why? Well because when you see that so many people don’t have faith and you see the hardship they face in addition to the same hardship we all face because it is said in the bible that we will all have trials and tribulations and that GOD brings his rain on the just and the unjust alike and so on, so we all have issue to deal with in life but imagine those who are going through those struggles no knowing GOD. Not being able to rest in their faith, not being able to pray for guidance and not having the bible to turn to in times of confusion.
That is why simply having faith is a blessing. Why the simple fact that you hear the word of GOD and you run toward it instead of away from it as so many do Is a blessing in itself.
Now back to the rest of the question and I’ll break it up in to parts and address each part individually.
Why Believe in GOD? First off I’ll pose a simple counter question of why would you want to not believe in GOD? IF you think about it in simplest terms you have a dichotomy where on one side you can believe that your nothing, that you are unimportant and expendable and you are only ever going to have what you can scrape out for yourself in this world and when you die that’s the end and after the first couple months people won’t even talk about you anymore and only the closes members of your family will feel the bite of your absence and once they die you will be forgotten, at least you won’t be remembered in any real sense by people who actually knew you.
On the other side you have a creator who made you on purpose meaning that you weren’t a happenstance you exist because GOD wanted you to specifically you and specifically now and specifically where you are and with your specific family or without, the bible says that even the hairs on your head are numbered that’s how much purposeful thought GOD put in to your existence.
So how can this option possibly loose out to the concept of there being no GOD? well first of all you have of course the evil urges in human kind that seriously conflict with the teachings of the bible, you also have the world at large that shows us to value all things that again are in stark contrast to what the bible says is valuable. We are indoctrinated from birth with this garbage culture of seeking things and pleasures and keeping yourself at the top of the list of things to consider when making all decisions.
That’s not what the bible teaches. The bible says esteem other higher than yourself, but how can you? How can you esteem others higher than yourselves and still seek fame and riches and all those other things that the world values? The answer is you can’t… the bible says lay thee not up treasures for yourself on earth but rather in heaven.
The fact is that even though people of the world think of Christians as being weak misinformed and foolish the reality is that they have to think that way of us because the alternative is that they are the ones who are weak misinformed and foolish .
Non- believers at least the variety of non-believer that chooses not to believe rather thank those who don’t yet know about Jesus, don’t want to believe in GOD because that would mean they would have to change, they would have to stop glorifying and gratifying themselves and think about others and that is terrifying to a sinner because it’s terrifying to the sin that dwells anthem.
Moving on to the next section of the question.
What’s the point? In this context of course meaning what’s the point in following Jesus, the point in submitting yourself to the creator of the universe? Well this is some things that as I mentioned before is something that is painfully obvious to believers but to non-believers not so much …
Let’s start off with eternity, now we read in the bible in many places that our souls are everlasting right? So while some people are able to kind of imagine the idea of forever in heaven, most people don’t think about the alternative namely forever in HELL. So that to me is a pretty good “point” to believing in Jesus and in GOD the Father, I am a Christian and I love my heavenly father and I do my very best every day to make sure I’m being as obedient as I can, not to get noticed or to look pious but because that is what I’m supposed to do I fail constantly we all do but guess what there’s another point to believing my father in heaven forgives me when I make mistakes. And he is there to help me learn from them so the next time it comes up I won’t fail. A lot of Christians talk about how “GOD is working in me” that’s what that means you need to be shaped and taught. Now think about that … People talk about how they don’t believe in GOD cause the cant see him, well none of us see him not in normal ways anyway but it’s like the old saying “how can you see the wind? You can’t but you can see the branches of the trees and the leaves moving”. I see GOD I see him when I can do things that I know for a fact I cannot do myself, some people say that they are “Just that good” I’m not. When I can see the message in my mistakes and learn the truth of what GOD wants me to do in those situations, I see GOD there too. That’s a big reason in my opinion.
And now the final part of the question “you can just take care of yourself”.
At this point I believe I have touched on this subject already, so I’ll make this short and to the point. NO NEITHER YOU NOR I CAN TAKE CARE OF OURSELVES! And if you can’t see that then I invite you to take a long and sober look at your life and tell me what was so fantastic that you did for yourself.

Genesis chapter 1 and verse 27
So God created mankind in his own image,
in the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them.