ADVENTure Day 10 –

When I was thirteen, I began to question whether or not God was real.  I had grown up going to church but I had to decide for myself what I really believed.  With all I was taught in school about evolution and science that was explained without the possibility of God, I wondered if Christianity was just some empty religion or if there was really truth about it.  After all, it taught crazy things like –

Matthew 1:23 – “Behold, the virgin will be with child, and bear a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel,” which is translated, “God with us.”

I wondered how God could really be with us.  Then I went to camp.  Each of the counselors and staff members there were dedicated to Christ and showed such love that I had never seen before.  In essence, they were the love of God “with us.”  That was convincing to me.  Over the years, I have seen much more evidence of God from miracles, to the wonder of science so complex and beautiful that it points to an artistic Creator.  None of these other proofs has been as convincing as people who act like “Jesus with skin on.”  Though His people are imperfect, that uncompromising, never failing love of Christ shown through them is the most obvious proof of God and His loving, forgiving nature that could exist.

Let’s live out that presence of God through our daily lives!  Let your caring for others be the proof that they need that God exists.  The Bible teaches that God now lives in our hearts.  Let’s be living proof of that!