WOYWW: Skepticism vs. Faith

We made a mess last week when I did my Life Map workshop with 21 participants. 

It was a lot of fun, sharing about my own journey the past years, and how my own life maps has helped me! 

And here’s my Life Map for 2019. 

“How could we ever get enough bread in this deserted spot to satisfy such a crowd?” Matthew 15:33

There is so much skepticism in the world. It’s cooler to be a skeptic than to feed our faith. Or perhaps we want to be practical, and really hope and faith are not practical. We can’t touch it or see it. We can’t apply reason or critical thinking when it comes to Jesus, if He really can give us enough bread, if He really can guide us, if He can help solve world hunger and pollution and corruption. The list goes on. 

My starting point is always, is He who He claims to be? If He is God, then we should take Him and His words seriously. If He is God and He is not flicking His finger to solve poverty and the huge problems of the world, God does not have to explain to us why He allows it all to continue. 

God’s ways are far above our ways and His thoughts are higher than our thoughts. He chose to come as a baby, a weak human being, dependent on His mother. He was born of the lineage of David, and in Bethlehem. All this was foretold by the prophets Micah and Isaiah. In the Old Testament God gave various signs to watch out for so we could recognize the Messiah when He comes. And some of those prophecies were about how the Messiah would be betrayed and put on trial, beaten and mocked. There are about 300 prophecies in the Old Testament unveiled in the New. 

A mathematician said that the chance of one person fulfilling only 8 of those 300 prophecies is 1 in 100,000,000,000,000,000. 1 person fulfilling 48 prophecies: 1 chance in 10 to the 157th power. Only God could have divinely orchestrated when He would be born, and the events afterwards. One may wonder: WHY? 

LOVE. God so loved the world that He GAVE His only begotten Son that whoever believes in Him may not perish but have everlasting life. Let us believe in Him, and His Words, so that one day we will be with Him in the fullness of His plan for us!