Day 8: Effectual Belief

"For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged." Romans 3:3-4

Many skeptics and atheists try to play on tangible proof of God. They want to see God right in front of them or they will not believe. We can display fact after fact, proof after proof and logic after logic, but unless they physically see God they won't believe. Exodus 33:20 says "And he said, Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live." They want to hear Him audibly, which they hear Him audibly every time a Christian speaks His Word to them "So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God." Romans 10:17.

How strange it is that they look for a sign when they have a living miracle standing in front of them. An atheist can look at my own life and find God in it. Why? Because I have found grace when I didn't know there was any. I didn't always believe in God. In fact, there was a time I was on the side of the atheists thinking God deserved to be mocked and shunned, and people that believed in something like that was just trying to cling to something because they have nothing else in this world. What I came to realize was I was the fool. "The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good." Psalm 14:1

I ignored the thousands upon thousands of evidence and miracles that were in the lives of ordinary people in front of me. I ignored the cures, the antidotes, the good and bad, the morality of it all and assumed I didn't need any of it. All I did was blindly ignore facts. Just because I didn't believe didn't stop God from doing His work. In fact, it was because of my unbelief that God proved Himself in my life and it allowed me to come to Him. I couldn't believe that the God I mocked, the God I chose to withdraw myself from and ignore was the same God who was still waiting for me to see His open hands. God brought me to my knees and showed me how wrong I was. Are you willing to finally look to the evidence literally all around you and finally accept it as God given? Every man is a liar, but God is always true. There's no excuse anymore. You already know what should be done.