Parson to Person - Believe in the risen Christ

Once again it is time for us to reflect upon the cornerstone of our faith in Christ. To journey to the cross upon which Jesus was crucified and then resurrected three days later.

There are so many theories, doubts and claims which can be confusing to some and upsetting to others. Remember Satan is a liar and the gospel is simple.

A group of people who were among the 5,000 approached Jesus asking, ?What must we do to do the works God requires??

Jesus answered, ?The work of God is this to believe in the one He has sent.?

For some believing requires getting all your ducks in a row, for others it is faith as small as a mustard seed.

The disciples were committed to Christ but didn?t totally understand until the resurrection. Then everything fell into place, it all made sense.

When Jesus rose from the dead there was confusion and doubt.

A week later His disciples were in the house again, and Thomas was with them. Though the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them and said, ?Peace be with you.?

Then He said to Thomas, ?Put your finger here; see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe.? Thomas said to Him, ?My Lord and my God!? (John 20:26-28).

Billy Graham said, ?Do you want your faith to grow? Then let the Bible begin to saturate your mind and soul.?

?Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.? (Hebrews 11:1)

It was rumored that underneath a certain piece of ground there was iron to be found, and two men were appointed to go and inspect the land and see whether there was really iron there. One man, a scientist and mineralogist, was very conscious of his own limitations; and knowing his own weaknesses, he took with him some scientific instruments.

The other man, who was buoyant and self-confident, said, ?I believe what I can see, and what I can?t see I won?t believe.?

And so he walked over the field, and got over it in no time. He said, ?Iron? Nonsense! I see no iron; there is no iron here.?

This man went to the syndicate and said, ?There is no iron there. I walked all over the field and I could not see a trace of it.?

The other man did not trust to his eye at all. He carried in his hand a crystal box, and in that little crystal box there was a needle, and he kept watching that needle.

He paused, for the needle in that crystal box had pointed down like the very finger of God, and he said, ?There is iron there.?

He passed on, until again that needle pointed down, and he said, ?There is iron there.?

And when he handed in this report he said, ?From one end of the field to the other, there is iron.?

?Oh,? said one of the adherents of the first man. ?How do you know, when you did not see it??

?Because that which cannot be seen with the eye can be magnetically discerned,? he said.

Hebrews 11:1 says, ?Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.?