God’s Alive

In the movie, God’s Not Dead, a young college freshman challenges his atheist professor to prove that God is very much alive and is certainly not deceased. The freshman has to prove to his classmates, his jurists, that God is vibrantly alive. Does he succeed, or does the jury agree with the professor in order to make a decent grade in the class? I challenge you to watch the movie to discover what actually happens. Christians profess that God is alive, or else they wouldn’t be Christians. The basic tenet is that God sent His only son to earth to pay off our debt of sin so that you and I could have a spiritual relationship with God the Father (John 3:16). God had to watch his Son be beaten, mocked, and torn to pieces in order to meet the requirement that God demanded. He witnessed the soldiers dragging Jesus to a structure where He was cruelly crucified. There was a point where God had to refuse to come to the rescue of Jesus (Mark 15:34). And for three long days, Jesus was confined to a burial cave. Can you imagine what individuals thought when they saw Jesus walking among them after He left the cave? If it had been me, I would have thought that I was delusional or hallucinating…big time. Now for the unbelievers, they could simply consider all of this a dramatic story from a make-believe book—the Bible. However, to the believer, the events are as real as real can get. The believer, at some point in his or her life, had to step out in faith and choose to believe that what occurred was actual—very real. Definition of faith: (1) complete trust or confidence in someone or something (2) a strongly held belief or theory ---Google When I sit down in a chair, I have the faith that its molecules will support my weight. When I get in my automobile, I have the faith that it will start so that I can run my errands. Thus, when I see the wonders of nature, such as the Grand Canyon, I have faith that a living God made them a reality. I know that faith is evidence of an unseen force, and so for me on a personal basis, I have chosen to place my gut feeling of faith in a loving, kind, vibrant, and living Supreme Being. God is not dead and never has been. It is my testimony of faith, and it works for me.