What You Say You Believe

Del Tackett in "The Truth Project" asks perhaps the most important question concerning your faith walk you will ever have to answer. That question is …

Do you really believe … that what you believe … is really real?

Now that's a question that makes you come to a stop. Think about what you just read. Do you believe … what you say you believe? Really? You really do?

Most people if they are really honest with themselves will tell you they only believe about half of what they say they believe in the Bible. At least that's how they act anyway … that half of it is all that matters. Are you so certain in what you say you believe that you would be willing to bet your life on it? You are you know. What about the life of your child?

Do you know that is exactly what you are doing when you raise your children to accept and believe what you say you believe? But what if you really don't truly believe what you say you believe. What then?

Whether you know it or not, your children watch your actions. If you tell them one thing and then you do something different … do they then have the right to question whether or not … you really believe what you say you believe?

Oh, they may not ask or confront you about it … what you say you believe … when your actions say something entirely different to them. But they are watching and they see your true belief in action.

I'm not just speaking of when your children are young, living under your roof. I have middle aged daughters with their own families, and guess what … all of them still see how my wife and I respond to problems in life … how we act or react to things around us. Do we act like we believe the words of Jesus? Do we respond like we really believe what we say we believe and totally trust God … even when we can't see anything except the problem in front of us?

You see … we are witnessing to others without speaking a single word of testimony. Talk is cheap. Actions do speak louder than words … always.

What do you believe? Have you ever put down on paper the things you have absolutely no doubt about; promises in the Word of God you really believe or think you believe. If you haven't made a list … have you at least thought about these things? Have you had an opportunity to test the things you think you believe? You will.

Let me start a short list for you off the top of my head. The Bible teaches that there is only one way to make Heaven … to repent and except Jesus as Saviour and Lord thru His death on the cross as full payment for sin. Do you really believe that is the only way to make Heaven? Are you sure of that?

Okay … what about healing? When someone tells you when you're sick … "By His stripes you are healed" … do you believe it? Really? Then why do we make excuses when we aren't healed every time?

What about the words of Jesus in Mark 11:24 … "I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them."

Do you say … well, "it must not be God's will" if we don't receive the desires of our heart.

How about when Peter said … "Cast all your care upon Him for He careth for you."

If we say we believe the Bible, why do we carry worry, fear and doubt around with us? Why don't we act like the New Testament is true? Just how far does our personal belief take us? Is the Bible too complicated for us to believe the whole thing?

I'm not trying to pick on you … I'm just trying to get you to consider exactly what you do believe. Have you forgotten the question?

Do you really believe … that what you believe … is really real?

I don't know what you believe. I ask this question for the single purpose to awaken you to the fact that some Christians really only … think they know … what they believe.

And guess what? Many times you won't find out until you are facing a crisis in your life and then you wonder … God where are you? I know … I've been there.

Get to know your God and what you believe He is. Is He truthful? Is He fair? Is He faithful?

Do you believe He loves you no matter what?

He does.


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