If I saw you face to face, experienced the miracles that you performed first-hand, would I know you? Would you have to convince me that you are You? Would I be skeptical and discredit you like the Pharisees, or would I know, trust, believe and follow like the disciples?
Would I be as loyal to you as I have been to imperfect humans, incapable of healing, restoring, or saving my soul? It occurs to me how hard you had to work to explain who you were to people who didn't believe.
Your Word teaches that we have a choice. As in Matthew 7:24... 24 “Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them, may be compared to a wise man who built his house on the rock."
It isn't enough to just hear the message of Jesus. We have to act on the message. That action is rejection or acceptance. Rejection is likened to building a house on sand. Acceptance is building a house on the firm foundation of The Rock. It is a gift, there is nothing we can do to earn or deserve the gift Jesus gave. (this is grace) But we have to acknowledge and accept it.
If we didn't have to accept it, everyone who says, "Lord, Lord" would be saved.
The truth is, I see the evidence of your presence in the world around me. I have witnessed first-hand your miracles surrounding my life. And this is enough for me.
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