Our Belief and God

Good Morning!! God a very simple word,...three letters, one syllable, very easy to say. We see this word on our money,...we print it on our bumper stickers, and plaster it on billboards. Preachers say it with such confidence, as if they have the meaning of this word all figured out,...God squished in a box of fancy-sounding words and quotations by long-dead theologians. We hear this word thrown around casually and carelessly, like punctuation at the beginning or the end of a sentence. It's even common to hear someone use His name as an outcry of petty disgust! What does God mean? Does belief in what stands behind that little word matter? The answer is an unquestionable "yes".

The simple believe anything, but the prudent give thought to their steps.—Proverbs 14:15 (NIV)
Different beliefs about it have caused wars, and have healed families. The word God has been used for great comfort,...and misused causing great pain. It causes some to feel peace, and others to boil with anger. Polls tell us that 80-92% of Americans "believe in God." I'm assuming that if you’re reading this devotional, you "believe in God " too. But do you really know what you believe, when you say that? What do you mean when you say, "God "? As more of God’s nature is revealed through the Bible,...and devotionals like this, I hope and pray that your understanding of and belief in Him will be deepened and sweetened.

" Do you know why most of us miss the adventure? It's because we've never learned to plug our theology into our biography."—Tim Hansel

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Father God, open our hearts, minds, and souls to Your Word, as we learn more about who You are. We already "believe in You",...but we want to Believe In You! Reveal Yourself to us so that we can live in You, in new truthful ways. Amen.

"...in our time, the problem doesn't appear to be that people worship MANY gods;
it's that they don't worship ANY god."