I Believe

Being a Christian, belonging to Christ, means that I believe and have placed my trust in something far greater than myself. I am a mere mortal living out my human existence in a frail, flawed, fallen state. I do not have the power, the knowledge, or the ability to do anything that even remotely comes close to saving myself in either a temporal or eternal sense. But the good news is I don't have to. God, through Jesus Christ, has done everything necessary for me to be redeemed, saved from sin, sickness, satan, self, and ultimately eternal separation from God. All that is required of me is that I believe.

I believe in God, the eternally existent I AM, who was before anything else was, who is all the time everything I need Him to be, and who will continue forever to be after everything else has reached its end. I believe in Him as the Almighty Creator, who brought all that is into existence through the power of His spoken Word and who sustains it all with the power of His will. He is the source of everything everywhere, and without Him there is nothing that can exist now, that has ever existed before, or that will ever exist after.

I believe that the Bible is the divinely inspired revelation of God to His creation, that those ancient texts provide my human understanding with all the information I need to know God and to live for Him. It is my all sufficient guide for faith and conduct, for belief and practice. When it speaks, I speak; when it is silent, I am silent. If it says it, I believe it, for it has the answer to every question and the solution to every problem. I believe that it is the written Word of God, and that every word within it is meaningful to my personal life. As I have often said, I believe it all from Table of Contents to Maps.

I believe that Jesus Christ is the only begotten Son of God, that he was God made flesh to dwell among men, to bear my sins in His sinless body to the cross on which He paid the ultimate sacrifice for my salvation. I believe that He has been given the Name above every name, and that it is the only Name by which we can be saved. I believe in Him as my Savior, my Healer, my Baptizer, any my soon-coming King of kings and Lord of lords. I believe that He died, that He was buried according to Scripture, and that He rose again on the third day, and that He appeared to many witnesses who gave testimony concerning the reality of His resurrection. And I believe that He is alive today, sitting in heaven at the right hand of the majestic throne of God in heaven.

I believe in a whole lot of other things, but mostly what I want to communicate is that I believe in God, I believe in His Son, and I believe in His Word, and those three have made me what I am, govern my life completely and make me become what God wants me to be. And I cannot pick and choose what to believe about God; I must put my faith totally and completely in what He has revealed of Himself to mankind through His Son and His Word. And in doing so, I know I can never go wrong.