Dear Friend,
What you believe is all tied up with who you believe!
Years ago I spoke to
a young European woman who was into all the Western philosophies. Astrology
seemed to be the favorite.
It was just before
Christmas and she asked me what I believed and why I believed it. She confided she was looking for a reason for
which to live and to die. "I want
so badly to know what to believe," she said. She hadn't found the answer.
"It's not what but who," I said. She
looked at me inquiringly.
I reminded her of the
Christmas story and how astrologers -- philosophers from Persia -- traveled
hundreds of miles to kneel at a crib of a poor baby boy.
"Why would such
important religious teachers from another culture bow the knee to a baby born
in a stable?" I asked her. She
shook her head. "Because of who they believed Him to be," I
answered. "When you find out who
that baby is, you'll find what to believe and what you are looking for. He will tell you the true truth. If He is God, then we can trust and believe
what He said."
Then I explained,
"That's why I'm a convinced Christian. What I believe has credibility because of who
said it. If Jesus is God, what He said
is truth. It's trustworthy."
When my youngest son,
Pete, was in grade school, he loved words and had a great sense of drama --
even in those days! I found him in a
corner of his room writing hard.
"What are you
writing?" I asked.
"A book,"
he answered without looking up.
"A book? What about?"
"About
God."
"Why?"
"So people will
read it and know about Him."
These many years
later, Pete has finished his book, Belief
Matters!
Pete understands this
generation of adults. Not because he's
learned how to talk to them, but because he's one of them. Pete challenges the myth that it's okay to
believe whatever you want to believe if you believe it in sincerity.
As Pete explains, a
sincere belief can be sincerely wrong. Pete
says, "Unless we know what is true about God, our distorted beliefs will
cripple our experience."
Understanding what
you believe is more crucial than ever, especially in these times. We need to know why we believe, but more importantly in who because Belief Matters!
Blessings,
Jill Briscoe
Executive Editor
Just Between Us Magazine
Yep, it's the difference between life & death...
ReplyDelete~Leslie Dawn
So very true. We need to read the word for ourselves because sometimes distortions are presented as truth. We need to be as Bereans and check things out these days when there is much shallowness to what is taught by some in order to draw in the masses.
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