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 BELIEVING IN GOD AND BELIEVING GOD

They are two entirely different things. Believing in God is saying, I know God exists. Jesus said that even the demons believe in God. But believing God is believing everything God has said about Himself, about us, and about the relationship He desires to have with us. And there lies the importance of believing God. Believing God is to believe that God sent Jesus to be our Savior, to believe that God has made a way for us to be forgiven of our sinful nature, and to believe that he loved us so much that he sent His only begotten Son so that we might accept Him and have eternal life with Him.

 

God works in our lives today by calling us to have faith in Him and to believe that He is in charge, that He has a plan and that His plan will be fulfilled. He asks us to use our faith in Him to bring peace to the storms that occur in our lives. He gives us his word as our confidence, our assurance that He is in control. When we are in chaos, many times we lose sight of hope. We feel we are on the brink of perishing, but when we remind ourselves that God has a plan, and that He is bringing His plan to full fruition then we grow in hope. We then have an increased expectancy that God is in control, and this allows peace to flood our hearts and minds.

Also keep in mind that God is not interested in us accomplishing great things for Him. What He is interested in is our personal relationship with Him. We cannot serve God until our hearts are fixed on Him, and our hearts cannot be fixed on Him until we begin to surrender to Him.

God wants us to acknowledge that we cannot make it on our own. He wants us to rid ourselves of our prideful attitude. He doesn't want us thinking that we can save ourselves. We need his life imparted to us in order for us to live day by day. We didn't create ourselves, and we can't sustain ourselves. He alone is God and he alone is life. Apart from Him we die, both physically and spiritually.

So if you wish to know the answer to the questions, who is God, or what is He like, then just look at Jesus. The Father shares the same love and care for each person that Jesus showed for them during his human life on this earth. Who is God the Father? He is the one who is eagerly waiting to throw His arms around you, to comfort you, to lovingly embrace you, to let you cry on his shoulder, and He is the one who wants to whisper in your ear, "Your're mine, I'll never leave you. Don't worry, in the end it's going to be all right!"

Every time that Jesus opened blind eyes he declared that God the Father is just like that. Each time He fed the hungry or raised the dead He was telling the world that The Father was the exact same way. When Jesus forgave those who nailed Him to the cross He was showing us that the Father also forgives because the Father is truly a God of love. In the following verse Jesus himself tells us who really does all those many good things. John 14:10 "The Father who dwells in Me does the works."

Jesus was speaking not only about himself but also about God the Father when He talked about their unconditional love for each and every person. Jesus said in Hebrews 13:5

I will never leave you

I will never desert you

I will never forsake you

I will never abandon you

Isaiah 41:10 Do not be afraid, for I am with you. Do not look around, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. I will really help you. I will really keep hold of you with my right hand of righteousness.

Isaiah 41:13 For I, Jehovah your God, am grasping your right hand. I am the one saying to you, Do not be afraid. I myself will help you. 

 

 

 

 

 

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