Doing is Believing

Rabbit Holes

I often find myself tumbling down the rabbit hole of trying to comprehend the idea that God pre-exists all things. That He had no beginning. That He always was and always will be.

And then the questions come:

Rabbit Holes 

I often find myself tumbling down the rabbit hole of trying to comprehend the idea that God pre-exists all things. That He had no beginning. That He always was and always will be.

And then the questions come:
“Where did He come from?”
The answer: “From nowhere. He always has been.”
And somehow that only makes the question louder in my head.
I just can’t conceive how this can be — and yet, it is.

Eventually, my spinning mind settles, and I come back to what I do know:
I exist.
This person — me — with all these unanswered thoughts, is undeniably here.
I am my own proof. I can’t be denied.
Mystery is mystery. The results may be evident, even when the who, how, and why are not.

Clues in the Created

Not everything is mystery. We’re given clues.
I see and feel God’s presence in the moon, the sun, and the stars — in the light, the heat, the vastness.
They are undeniably there.
As undeniable as my own existence.
God exists.

When it comes to the mystery of God — and our naïveté in spiritual matters — we are not left without hope or help.
We can seek and find out whether He is or is not.
We can taste and see if He is good.
We can take the Bible and its promises and prove if they are true.

How?

Here’s where my old familiar phrase comes in:

“You have to go to know.”

There is a prerequisite to knowing — and it is found in believing, in going, in doing.

First Things First

Before we can trust in God and His promises, we must first believe that He exists.

“And without faith it is impossible to please God,
because anyone who comes to Him must believe that He exists
and that He rewards those who earnestly seek Him.”
— Hebrews 11:6

The proof that we believe is not just in our words — it is in our response to what we say we believe.

The very first time I came to believe that God is, I immediately realized:
If God exists, He has to matter.
He is God!
We can’t say we believe and then casually set Him aside, like a forgotten kitchen appliance.

That is a deeply disrespectful place for God to be — and a dangerous one for us.

“For although they knew God, they did not honor Him as God
or give thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking,
and their foolish hearts were darkened.”
— Romans 1:21

Surrender

Believing in God is not just a mental agreement with truth.
It’s an invitation to live the life He designed — a life of abundance.

It should be a natural response to surrender to the God we say we believe in.

I once heard surrender defined as:
“Existing without resisting.”

Surrender is not ceasing to engage in life — it’s ceasing to resist God in our living.
It’s choosing to live — intentionally and imperfectly — to the pleasure of the One who is.

Proving the Mysterious

The only way to prove God’s promises is to exercise them.

Believing they’re true, thinking they’re true, agreeing with others that they’re true — that’s not enough.
We must do them to prove them true — and Him faithful.

Taste, then see.
Seek, then find.
Draw near, and then…

An Abundant Life

Abundant life is ours for the living.
And the only way to experience it — is to live it.

Together, let’s go — to know.

Here to help,
TG

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