TESTIFY: A 5-Day Devotional With Rock City WorshipSample

Evidence

Evidence

There’s no other love like this

I can’t deny it

I am reminded

Over and over again

Some say that faith is blind—that to believe in God means shutting off your brain, even to the point of disbelieving the evidence around you.

Maybe you have struggled with doubt because you believe that faith in Jesus is just blindly leaping into the dark, crossing your fingers, and hoping for the best!

While faith is indeed an “assurance of what we do not see” (Hebrews 11:1), nowhere in the Scripture does it suggest that those things are not attested to by evidence. Psalm 19:1 says that the heavens declare the glory of God. Romans 1:18-20 assures us that God has made Himself known through creation. His eternal power and divine nature are clearly seen in His creation if we have the humility to accept it.

If you’ve ever sat under the stars attempting to comprehend the vastness of the celestial landscape, stood overwhelmed on the precipice of the Grand Canyon, or scanned the surface of the sea that seems to extend forever until it reaches the unreachable horizon, you have likely had an internal sense of the eternal power of God. He has left His signature all over the earth, His fingerprint on the heavens. The evidence is all around us if we have the eyes to see.

Maybe you’ve never really doubted God’s existence, but you have experienced some things that make you question whether or not God actually loves you. He may be a powerful Creator, but does He care about my situation? My life? Maybe He is too big or too busy to bother Himself with my struggles.

The irrefutable evidence that God loves us is that He sent His only Son, Jesus, to sacrifice Himself for our sins so that we could live forever through faith in Him. He did this while we were still stubborn sinners, rebelling against God's will and wrestling Him for control over our own lives. Romans 5:8 says that while we were sinners, Christ died for us.

There is no greater love than that. There is no stronger evidence than that. To believe in a love like that is no blind leap into the dark.

Reflection:

• Take some time to think about the complexity and vastness of the universe. Meditate on the size and power of a God that could create something as great as our world, and praise Him.
• Take some time to ponder the depth of Jesus’s love for you. How does this affect your relationship with God and how you live your life for Him? How does it impact how you love others?