"What About God?"

"It is my family God has chosen!
Yes, he has made an everlasting covenant with me.
His agreement is eternal, final, sealed."
2 Samuel 23:5

Does God really exist? Am I just fooling myself? Am I being lied to? Is this my just crazy thinking? Even Christians who have devoted their entire lives to the Living God will once in a while stop and question what they are doing… is there a divine purpose or are we all being duped? And why would our "religion" be the only right one? What about all the other "good people" out there? What happens to them?

These questions should not be avoided. In our avoidance we only become prisoners in cells of confusion. We will lash out at anyone who even attempts to confront us on these issues, and we will try to convince them just how right Jesus is, and how wrong they are for not believing in Him.

Are these thoughts new? Are they anything that each one of us, as believers, hasn’t gone through at some point in our lives? Has there been one believer on the face of this earth who has not felt alone, deserted and fearful? It’s just not humanly possible to escape never feeling this way. Does that make God a liar? Does that make all that we believe in a lie? Does that make us fools for ever believing in God in the first place?

When we find the answers to these questions, we will have grown and everything the enemy has tried to do to destroy us will backfire because we will come out of these storms of life even more sure of all that we believe in. We are not put through trials in our lives so that they will destroy our faith; we are allowed to go through them because they are what builds a stronger faith in the Almighty. They are what show us Who actually is in control, and they are the very opportunities that help us know that God is true--that all we believe in is fact. We will find that we are not fools for believing in the Almighty, but in fact, we are given wisdom way beyond what this world can comprehend when we come to know Him through the storms.

Jesus claimed that He came to heal the sick, give sight to the blind, and set the lame on their feet again. He claimed that He was the Son of God, that He was sent to earth to set the captives free, release the prisoners from bondage, and comfort the brokenhearted. Jesus knew what He came to earth to do, and He would not allow any force of evil to stop it. He knew how lost we would be without His saving grace, and He loves us too much to leave us to our own devices. We need a Savior, and He is that Savior.

We get caught up into thinking we have to brave things out and be strong before we can receive what He is offering to us as help. What we miss is that He wants to be our strength; it is the only way we will survive and be victorious. The enemy tries to pull the blinders over our eyes at the most opportune moments, and many times he succeeds. Then Jesus turns up missing because we can’t see Him, but it doesn’t mean He is not there! Do we have doubts? Fears? Yes! But what would our faith be without difficulty? We can question, doubt, fear, cry and grow weary, but through it all as we search for Truth, we will only know God more, love Him more and be filled with gratitude towards Him—then when the storms have passed by we will have learned even more about His loving care in our lives.