What we believe and why we believe it part 2

So the first Wednesday of this series i left a question with the youth, why do you believe in God? Then i got some of them to share why the following week. There were some really great reasons.

One guy said that he believes in God because of a miracle that took place at his birth. He wasn't suppose to live but God saved his life.

Another guy said that his mom and him were living on the street with no where to go because of addictions his mom was into. Then they received Jesus and Jesus has given his mom the strength to overcome the addictions and heal there family.

Wow those are really great reasons! But many of us have not gone through a near death experience or extreme life changes. If you were like me you were raised in a christian home and went to church every Sunday. You were raised to believe there was a God and you receive salvation through Jesus. But have you ever stop and thought, if i was raised in a Buddhist home would i believe in Buddha? Do you have any deep personal convictions for believing in God or is it because that is what you were taught?
I used to feel guilty for questioning if there was a God. But now i believe its a good thing, if it draws you to study, read the word and honestly seek God.

That's what happened to me when i was in my late teens. I needed proof. I started reading books like a case for a creator that had scientific facts that showed evidents that there is a God. And i read the old testament and some of the study's on the old testament prophesies. Did you know that there was over 300 prophesies in the old testament some written over a thousand years before the coming of the saviour that were all fulfilled in one man? That one man is Jesus.

God went through all of this with old testament prophesies and scientific facts not to impress us but to prove to us that he is divinely GOD. I heard it put in a good way once. God doesn't want us to take a step of faith into darkness but a step of faith into the light.

So if God is real and what is written in the bible is true then where it says in Exodus 34:13 our lord is a jealous God, means God is passionate about his relationship with me. And how can i not love God who has loved me so much first?

Wikipedia defines Jealous as "emulation, ardour, zeal, passionate"