If seeing is believing, I don’t believe that much.
There is a great saying, “I will believe it, when I see it,” is this always the case?
Do we have to see it to believe it?
In life we like proof.
Is there a point when we don’t need our own proof or to witness or to experience something with our own eyes to know it exist?
I believe it would get hurt to get shot with a gun.
I have never experienced this.
I have never seen someone get shot personally nor have I shot someone with anything but a paintball gun.
Even though I never experienced it, I believe it would hurt to get shot with a gun.
Why?
I believe other peoples accounts of how it hurts and I hear about how many deaths and injuries there are per year from guns.
Therefore I come to the conclusion that getting hit with a bullet from a gun would hurt.
I can believe this without an eye witness account or shooting someone.
Sometimes we believe what we can’t see.
Faith can be the same way.
I have heard and said before coming to Christ, I would believe it if I would have witnessed what he did on my own.
I would believe in Christ if I saw a sign or something amazing that he did was my thought.
I thought if I didn’t see it with my own eyes or had a personal talk with Jesus, I will not believe.
A question was asked to me, “If you saw a miracle of Jesus or saw him personally would you believe?”
My first thought, “Yes.”
The more I think about it, no.
I would make up something…
How am I sure that was a real miracle?
How do I know that was really Jesus?
I wouldn’t.
Jesus just brought Lazarus from the dead and this was the response by some of the people in John 11:45-47…
“Therefore many of the Jews who had come to visit Mary, and had seen what Jesus did, put their faith in him. But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done, then the chief priests and the Pharisees called a meeting of the Sanhedrin.”
Some saw what Jesus did and believed, but not everyone who was an eye witness of this occasion believed.
Some went back to snitch on Jesus.
Not everyone who had an eye witness account of Jesus or the miracles he did, believed and put their faith in him.
There are times in life we believe without a doubt something exists without our own physical proof of it.
How do you know Abraham Lincoln was real?
Sure his face is on some money, but does that make him real?
Did you see him alive?
Do you know people that can recall having a conversation with him?
Did you see any video of him?
If you are like me…
· You never met Abraham Lincoln.
· You don’t know anyone (Unless you have a great family genealogy) that talked to him.
· You still believe he was a real person and lived.
Why do we find it so hard to believe in Jesus but yet find it so easy to believe in Abraham Lincoln?
I believe Jesus was real and what he did was true, just like Abraham Lincoln.
I do not have an eye witness account or have personally seen Jesus perform a miracle in my own eyes, but I believe.
Why?
The same reason I believe in Abraham Lincoln but more.
He was written about in History books, the Bible gives an eye witness account of what people said about him.
People were told we will kill you unless you say Jesus was not real or his miracles were false.
They died because they believed in Jesus.
What are you willing to die for?
If someone came up to me with a gun and said, “I will kill you unless you told me Abraham Lincoln was fake.”
I would have no problem telling you Abraham Lincoln was fake and live another day.
I could not do the same with Jesus.
Everything I am is because of Jesus.
The reason I have the ability to forgive those who hurt me deeply, is Jesus.
The reason I have a purpose for my life is Jesus.
If seeing is believing, do you believe in things you can’t see?
