With Certainty...

“For God so loved the world he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” John 3:16

I have never lived one day of my life without this truth being in my mind. Like many, it was one of the first Bible verses I memorized and it flows off my lips with fluidity and belief. The word belief means “the acceptance by the mind that something is true and real, often underpinned by an emotional or spiritual sense of certainty.”

This definition is right on with my absolute belief in the sacrificial love of God as He surrendered His own Son for you and for me – no exclusions. So with this absolute belief which affords us everything in the eternal, I pose the question, “Why don’t we believe Him with a sense of certainty regarding the earthly?”

We believe in the grand principles of Christianity but we suffer from unbelief in the lesser things of this world. Do we believe when we lose a loved one? Do we believe when jobs are lost and children become wayward? Do we believe when that devastating phone call is received?

If we truly believe that all things come from God who works everything to our good then our walk should be one of peace, resolve and freedom. Our belief seems to be conditional at best based on what are circumstances bring. The definition of belief does not state that it is based on the heart which is powered by emotions. It states that belief is the acceptance by our minds apart from our emotions. Since God gave us His only Son then it makes no sense that He would withhold anything else from us that heals, holds and carries us through all of our circumstances.

Belief is not the acceptance that everything is going to be easy or painless but the acceptance that everything is going to be alright.