Why

Question: what do you believe?  The reason I am asking this question is that all of us claim to believe in something and we all worship something but not everyone believes in the Creator that created the Universe.  There are many religions but not all of them worship or serve the one true God.  For instance, those that believe in the big bang theory believe in something but not in the Creator.  Then there are those that believe, worship and serve idols that may represent the sun or fertility or even the stars or perhaps someone’s ideology, but we all believe in something.  And whether it is good or bad, it will shape our way of life and the way we think, depending on how much we believe in it.  We will also use whatever we believe to help shape other people’s lives because we don’t live in a vacuum, we share this earth with people and we also share our ideas.  That is why there are so many voices out in the world crying out in various ways trying to get our attention.

Think about the different thought patterns in the government, you have the liberals and conservatives and all the others in between, they all believe their way of thinking is right and they try to convince everyone else to think like they do.  The same thing goes on in organizations, and even in the church, sometimes in the form of clicks.  

There are some people that believe in morals and some that believe that men set the standard for the way we should live and that there are no morals.  If you believe in morals at all, you have to believe that there is a moral giver so then you have to believe in an intelligent being that sets up the moral laws in the first place.  Where did morals come from?  They came from God, and He, not man sets the standard by which we all should live!!  The only way anyone could set up moral laws is if the person was omniscient and knew all things and only God fits that category.  It is very easy to know that there is a God and that He exists.  I believe if you will humble yourself and truly seek Him you will find Him.

Read what His Word says in Jeremiah 29:11-13, “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart.”

I know that this was spoken to the Jews when they were in captivity in Babylon but I also believe it is still true today, if you truly seek God with a humble and contrite heart and ask Him to reveal Himself to you He will.

Read what King David said in Psalms 51:15-17, “O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth shall show forth Your praise. For You do not desire sacrifice, or else I would give it; You do not delight in burnt offering. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, a broken and a contrite heart—these, O God, You will not despise.”

I want to encourage you to get into God’s Word and study, asking God to reveal Himself through the scriptures to you and I believe He will.  His purpose was for you to know Him in a personal way, so He made that possible by sending His Son to be a sacrifice for our sins so that we could be in right standing with Him as if we had never sinned.  Jesus was a man who had no sin but was willing to allow Himself to be crucified, taking our blame and our shame, dying for us in our place even feeling the spiritual separation from His Father, God.

Read what it says in 1 Peter 2:22-25, “Who committed no sin, (talking about Jesus) nor was deceit found in His mouth; who, when He was reviled, did not revile in return; when He suffered, He did not threaten, but committed Himself to Him who judges righteously; who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness—by whose stripes you were healed. For you were like sheep going astray, but have now returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.”

We were all lost and Jesus loved us so much that He laid down His life for us.

Now read 2 Corinthians 5:12-21, “For we do not commend ourselves again to you, but give you opportunity to boast on our behalf, that you may have an answer for those who boast in appearance and not in heart. For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God; or if we are of sound mind, it is for you. For the love of Christ compels us, because we judge thus: that if One died for all, then all died; and He died for all, that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again.

Therefore, from now on, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know Him thus no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation, that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation.

Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us: we implore you on Christ’s behalf, be reconciled to God. For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.”

That’s how much God loves us and wants us to know Him and be reconciled to Him.  God allowed His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, to suffer horrendously to pay for our sins so that we could be reconciled to Him, removing the separation from Him and us because of our sins, praise the Lord!!  Enough said something to think about!  Have a super day and may the good Lord bless you and yours!!