In Response...

To my last blog - God doesn't just want me to just trust Him. He wants me to believe Him.

To believe means: to have confidence in the truth, the existence, or the reliability of something, although without absolute proof that one is right in doing so.

I believe that He is, was and always will be. But why then do I choose to question Him now? If I believe in Him, I have to believe in what He says. Believe that He exists means that I believe in what He says.

I believe that He is "I am the way, the truth and the light." So why don't I believe Him when He says "And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus." If I believe the latter, then I have to believe the former. There is no other way.

What does it mean to believe in someone of something? It means that you take what is said or done as the truth. It is honest - no lying or twisting of what is true. It is real, factual, certain, exact. You can't get any truer than the truth. Truth is truth is truth. There is nothing greater or more true than the exact truth. You can't make truth be even more true than it's current state. Totally, 100%, no doubt, true.

He is asking me to believe him. "Believe me, Bethany. Believe in me, but also believe me."

John20:29
"Jesus said to him, 'Because you have seen Me, have you believed? Blessed are they who did not see, and yet believed.'"