Have you ever come across someone who says, “I need to see God and then I will know he exists”? That’s what’s going on here. The crowd are saying, go on show us one more thing and we will believe. And you have to have some sympathy will the crowd or with people in this word today who want to see evidence. So many things scam us today, and so they just want to know if God is real. We are sold music players and clothes that the adverts suggest will suddenly make us way cooler. And yet we know in our hearts that this is not true. We are sold TV and films they suggest if we sleep with as many people as possible that we will be fulfilled and our hearts won’t be broken. And yet we all know that this is not true. Why should God be any different? OK so the Bible says he exists and loves me and I can live forever with him. But how do I know that it is true? Show me some evidence. The evidence is there, but we have been blinded by lies. There is evidence in the creation of the universe and our world. At a very basic level science says that nothing can come from nothing, and so there must be some cause to create our world, and us, but that’s a discussion for another day. There is evidence in the lives of those who have accepted Jesus and the way they are and the way they act. Maybe Jesus isn’t a prove it to me before I believe type of thing. Maybe Jesus is a try before you buy type of thing. If we were to try the music player and clothes before we bought them, we would never pay for them because we would soon realise that we were no cooler then we were before. But if we try on God before we buy into all that he says, then we will never let him go. We will never let go of him because we will see the difference he makes to. And remember Jesus said “..once that person is with me, I hold on and don't let go.”
