Is seeing believing?

I don't know about you but that thought that I need to see something in order to believe it is something a lot of people hold to when it comes to questions of belief, yet not in anything else in life. Let me explain what I mean...

When I talk to people about Jesus, people sometimes say that they would believe and in him and follow him if they were around when he walked the earth, or if only he would come to earth now. Or I would believe in God if I could just talk to him.

Let me initially challenge this belief in saying does that hold true when we get a text message on our phone, or the internet I am now typing on that is accessed somehow by wireless connection. I cannot see any of these things in the air yet I know they are happening by the outcome on my phone or on the screen on my laptop. I cannot see the wind yet I know it is blowing outside my window because the trees are moving.

I cannot see Christ with my eyes but I see the effect he has had on my life, the way he has changed my heart, circumstances have changed that simply cannot be explained away by coincedence. I see the effect that he has had on the world, the effect he had on the world when he was here on earth and now he isn't.

Although we sit in a chair we don't know it is going to hold our weight until we take that step of testing our weight in it, we can be sure through tests, through how it is made so that when we finally take that step we are as close to certain as we can ever get. The same is true with Christianity, you can test it, you can experiment by asking other Christians.

My challenge to you is how long are you going to allow the wind to blow on your face and deny its existence, there is coming a time when that wind will blow on your face no more and then you will be face to face with the one who was blowing and you will finally have your wish of seeing, yet it will be too late. Start investigating where that wind is coming from...today is the day of salvation. - georgeosborn@avantiministries.com