MAY 30

BELIEVE, AND ARE SURE

“Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of eternal life. And we believe and are sure that Thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God.” (John 6:68-69)

BELIEVE – to remain stedfast, to adhere to, to trust. “I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.” (Ps. 27:13). Believing is a present tense action word, it involves our active participation of continued trust in Him, so that we remain firmly committed. Perhaps we have been far too “slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken.” (Luke 24:25).

And are SURE – the Greek word is actually “ginosko” meaning to know by experience. Thus we need to have that complete trust in the truth, and have an experimental knowledge, that we might be sure. God will not have His people unprepared, therefore He is leading each one through experience after experience that they might be thoroughly tested, until they truly “KNOW IN WHOM THEY HAVE BELIEVED.”

Lord, we believe and know by experience that Thou art the Christ. We followed you over these past years, we heard you teach, we saw your works that testified to you. Yes, but many others also followed, heard, saw, why then did they go back? Ah, “flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto you, Peter, but our Father which is in heaven. Revealed what? That Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God!

“Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us. Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known Me.” (John 14:8-9). It is not enough to sing with those who sing, shout with the shouters, prophesy with those who prophesy, fast with those who fast, etc., but have we learned to KNOW HIM in that experimental knowledge which undergirds and supports us without wavering? Yes, we believe and are sure that HE IS GOD, in total control of all that comes our way, working the evil into our good, that we might daily overcome, and be found to His praise.