A Mandatory Ingredient for Faith
“How can I attain complete knowledge and understanding of God so that I can believe in Him?”
You can’t. But you can learn more than enough to strengthen your belief in Him.
If you’re anything like I used to be and you have a hard time understanding God, then this message is for you. Hopefully. It took me a long time to understand certain aspects of God that should’ve been easier than they were, so my explanation might be just as confusing as all the articles I’d read on my quest for clarity.
Many unbelievers, and even some Christians, have a hard time understanding God, and they can’t quite grasp the concept of the Holy Trinity. Equally, they can’t understand how God the Father and Christ the Son are one and the same; why Christ prayed to God—to Himself—why Jesus called God “the Father”—called Himself “the Father”; why Jesus would ask God—ask Himself—“Why have you forsaken me?” (Matthew 27:46); why we must pray to God, who is also Christ, through Christ, who is also God, and Who also prays to God.
It can be confusing!
These questions stumped me for years like some sophisticated mathematical equation—I and numbers do not get along—and they kept me from committing my life to God. It was a stumbling block for me because if I couldn’t understand something I thought should be easily understood by everyone, then I couldn’t fully trust it.
I remember trying to understand and hunting for information on the internet that might bring me clarity, but nothing ever really did. I think the way others tried to explain it, using big fancy words and long descriptions, made it difficult for me to grasp. Kind of like when you google something like: “How does a car engine work?” and you get an article that starts with: “To understand how a car engine works, you must first understand the history of the internal combustion engine.” 😩 Then, you have to sift through six pages of text to find the answer near the end. I’d wonder, “Why not start with the short, simple answer first and then provide the context?” Because some people can better understand the context if they have the simple version of the answer upfront.
But I was at a loss.
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