How Can You Believe?
God Asks Us: If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how can you believe if I tell you heavenly things?
jne: The real question is not what I believe but Who I believe. Do I believe whatever God tells me in the Bible or do I pick and choose what I believe on the basis of some personal criteria? There was a popular phrase about fifty years ago that said: “God said it, I believe it, that settles it.” Though probably well intentioned it was horribly misleading. In fact if God says it, it is settled regardless of whether I believe it or not. Like Nicodemus, what are the things in my background, my training, my presuppositions that keep me from simply believing whatever God says? To not wholeheartedly believe God locks us out of truly knowing Him and the Life He desires to give us.