something is true because someone tells you it is, without making sure that it really is true (often in future tenses)"⁵

These two statements, Believing in God and believing God, is the very essence of faith. They are separate but interdependent principles. To believe in God, we must believe God. To believe God, we must believe in God.

We tend to contradict ourselves. Too often we say we believe in God yet we do not believe Him. If we truly believe in God and believe God, then the lack of faith would never be an issue. The problem lies with who we believe God to be (the kind of God He is). It is important to seek to know God for who He truly is because our expectations about God and our understanding of God’s words are shaped by what we believe of Him to be.

The grace to believe in God and to believe God:

My Word

 

Question: There are times when God would give a grace to others but I don’t see His promise to that person coming true. When I “whined” to God, this is what He gave me.

Pyramid

 

Parting of the red sea

 

Meaning: In this sculpture, God is referring to Exodus 10-18:

As Pharaoh approached, the Israelites looked up, and there were the Egyptians, marching after them. They were terrified and cried out to the Lord.  They said to Moses, “Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you brought us to the desert to die? What have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt? Didn’t we say to you in Egypt, ‘Leave us alone; let us serve the Egyptians’? It would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the desert!”

Moses answered the people, “Do not be afraid. Stand firm and you will see the deliverance the Lord will bring you today. The Egyptians you see