“Believe
in God, believe also in me”
John 14:1
The
unbeliever’s basic approach toward life and God is “if God exists, how could
God have done this!”
The
believer’s posture toward life is, “how is it that so much good exists in a
world that is so fallen?”
The
unbeliever counts his entitlements.
The
believer looks for and counts his undeserved blessings.
The
unbeliever seeks what he feels he deserves.
The
believer needs no more than what he currently has.
The
unbeliever wants what he doesn’t have.
The
believer has all he wants.
Unbelievers
blame God and others for what’s wrong in the world.
Believers
are amazed that God has forgiven them.
Unbelievers
see their own deservedness and experience a sense of injustice when what they
feel they deserve isn’t acknowledged.
Believers see their own sin and are amazed at God’s grace.
Believers see their own sin and are amazed at God’s grace.
Believers
practice looking at this Baby born in 6 BC and see God Himself containing the
entire universe and the healing of the world contained within him.
The
unbeliever, well, the unbeliever just sees a Bible story.
And for him it is at best a story to which he may assent intellectually,
but is not a story that compels his surrender.
The
day before he died Jesus prayed this prayer,
“This
is Eternal Life (the Life of the Ages) (the Life that is Truly Life) (Life
beyond simple existence) to know You the One and only God and Jesus Christ, whom
you have sent” John 17:3
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