JOURNEY GUIDE: How to Know if You Believe in God
It's quite the fad these days to not believe in God. You, however, probably do believe. I know of one simple way to tell. And I’ll tell you in this Journey Guide.
To detect if we believe there is a God, we need a little pain, a little sudden crisis, something that scares us to death would be useful..
Because when our worlds fall apart and overwhelm envelops us, most of us instinctively pray to God from our guts. When I know I can’t pull myself up by my own bootstraps, as we used to say in Texas, I long for outside relief. I desperately beg, hoping there's a God who hears me.
And the moment I do that, I divulge my conviction that God is real and in control, even though I might not know him yet.
And so, here's the GUIDE:
To know if we believe there's a God, wait for some pain; to know the real God, earnestly seek him because he promises to be found.
Seek him in these ways:
Pray, asking him to reveal himself (Jeremiah 29:11-13).
Read the Bible, investigating God’s autobiography (2 Peter 1:21).
Do what God wants, watching him connect with us as we do (John 14:23-24).
As C.S. Lewis said in The Problem of Pain, “God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”