July 14, 2026

Believing and trusting God is its own reward. Believing takes faith. Trust means standing when many around you fall away. We will always have doubters, people whose logic as to why God isn’t real might sound plausible. But that flies in the face of faith.

Children trust their parents know everything because they have a history and they have experience. The joy of trusting in the Lord is the result of a spiritual assurance He is who He says He is. That faith brings with it peace and certainty and that certainty testifies to His righteousness.

When I was first saved and serving God, I couldn’t always attest to the difference. But with the distance of 34 years, I have to search memories to find the person I was prior to 1992.

Initially and to make things clear for Christians, I was saved by myself in front of a television screen when I was 18 years old. This salvation made me a child of God and God Himself chose to guide and protect me as I backslid my way through this world. Always close, always speaking softly, He led me back to Himself until the day I dropped to my knees and wholly and totally returned to God, my fierce and true first love.

There is a book called A Ready Defense by Josh McDowell. If you like debate or you just want to know how to explain our sweet Jesus and all of Heaven, get that book. You will be left in shock and awe by its careful, scientific and undeniable proofs that Jesus is who He says He is!

Believing in Jesus is easy. We hear His story, the testimony, we read the Word, we trust the miracles. Then come the challenges. Then come those who mock, laugh, call us superstitious and foolish. Worse, sometimes our fortunes reverse, we face challenges, or our friends walk away. We lose a job or a loved one. Suddenly we cannot connect with Jesus. This is where the rubber meets the road. This is when we must trust Him more! This is where the battle is won and Jesus moves in a mighty way. Yes, there can be testing. We were born to pass these tests and even greater trials. We were born into the Body of Christ.

Earthly logic pulls at us. It can sound sensible. Until we hold it up against the light of the Word. If it isn’t biblical, if it cannot withstand biblical scrutiny, if you know you wouldn’t think it or condone it in front of God, reject it. Walk away. Refuse those pretty words. Thirty pieces of silver looked attractive and profitable to Judas. They brought him death.

Lord, every day I fight the enemy and the world, an endless assault of negativity and accusations that You are not real. Like the serpent who told Eve she would surely not die if she ate the forbidden fruit, I must reject the lies and the claims that are a blatant effort to steal my Salvation. Help me hold tight to You, Your truth, and the pure comfort of life lived in the shadow of Your love.

For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. Romans 10:10