Why God?

Hey Girls,

Kinda a different question today but something I was thinking about this morning. Why do you believe in God? What made you make that choice and turn God from some concept to uniquely part of your faith? People seem to struggle so much with accepting that there is a God, or when they do, accepting that he wants to have any type of relationship with them. Although, I think a lot of that problem is in the fact that they feel inside themselves that they would have to change something about their lifestyle and no longer would they get to control everything. That is probably one of the hard parts holding people back- their own selfishness. So, what made you accept God? Or who knows, maybe there are some internet readers out there who stumble upon this and haven't made a decision for Jesus yet.

I'm just curious because we all know that our parents faith or the faith of someone who cares for us is not enough to count as faith of our own. We can't be Christians just because we grew up in a Christian home or go to church. Those things don't make our souls belong to God. We have make that choice, each, individually.

I chose God because I couldn't deny the truth. I knew he existed and I wanted to know him. I choose to believe what the Bible said about a loving God, and what I learned from others as well as what was confirmed in my own heart. Truth is undeniable. It's there; it's all around us. In every smile, every laugh, God's love speaks. So why do you believe in God? Why are you willing to give up everything in your life if God asks you to? Why are you willing to let God lead you and have full control? Because I know he knows best and had a plan from the moment he created the universe and only wants the best for the creation he loves so dearly and never stopped looking out for.

I think these are good questions for us to answer. Sometimes we can just get into such a routine that we don't really think about the basics anymore or why we do what we do or why we even believe. After all, how can we represent our faith to someone else or even try to convince them to believe if we can't answer the basic questions for ourselves. Why??

Faith comes down to a choice. We all know that because we can't rely on our feelings. Sometimes it may get really difficult to have faith, to believe. God may seem sooo far away. But those are the times when our choices matter so dearly! When it is so important to have faith. That's partly why faith is there, to help us through the difficult times. So many people seem to abandon what is most important when they come up against something difficult instead of allowing God to carry them through. We have to always choose to believe.

I was reading today about faith. Matthew 17:20-21 says, “You don’t have enough faith,” Jesus told them. “I tell you the truth, if you had faith even as small as a mustard seed, you could say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it would move. Nothing would be impossible." I was thinking about this. A mustard seed is 


pretty small. So this makes me think that perhaps instead of trying to have more faith, we need to make the 


choice to believe.  We have to take God seriously and his power to heart.






A lot can happen by faith but faith is driven by choice. We choose to believe, against all doubt, we believe. 


This is when faith really comes alive- don't you think?