Monday, August 6, 2007
James 2:19 You believe that there is one God, you do well: the devils also believe and tremble.
I BELIEVE IN GOD
Such a statement seems more and more to be viewed as though it were a direct ticket to eternal life. As though simply believing in God, or a god, is enough. The Apostle James (2:19) writes, "You believe that there is one God, you do well: the devils also believe and tremble." Our society does not wish to define who that god is. Let him be whatever you wish him to be. He is known by whatever name you want him to be known. So to say simply that "I believe in God" means very little.
We are called upon by our Lord to "test the spirits to see whether they be of God", and the measure of that test is nothing less and nothing more than Holy Scripture. The god of the Islamic religion, or of Jehovah's Witnesses, or American Indians, or Hinduism, on close examination is not the God who has revealed Himself to us through the Scriptures. They fall short of the test and are therefore found to be false gods. They are gods made from the minds of human reasoning and thought. They are made of various materials, taken by the hands of men, shaped, and fashioned by human design and placed upon their pedestals by those same hands and then bowed down before and worshiped.
But our God is in the Heavens. He has revealed Himself to us as Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, divine, eternal, Triune, and much, much more. How greatly blessed we are to have had our hearts and eyes and ears open by the Holy Spirit through the Word to come to the knowledge of God that we confess: "I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth."
