As most people know, Africa is a land with a hot climate. Until recent years, the children there didn’t know anything about ice or snow. There was once a missionary in Africa who tried to explain to some of them how lakes became hard and solid in his northern homeland. He told them that children could play on top of the water. Not one of them believed him. They didn’t understand that water can freeze when it gets very cold. They had never seen it, so they said he was lying.
However, he took one of those boys with him when he went back home for a rest, and he took him to a frozen lake. The missionary asked him to walk on the ice with him, but the boy was afraid. The missionary took him by the hand, and together they walked out across the lake, walking on the water just like the missionary had said.
“You did not believe what I said about solid water,” the missionary reminded him.
“I believe NOW,” the boy replied quickly.
He had to see it before he would believe. He did not trust the missionary’s word when he could not see it.
The Lord Jesus has told us a lot of things about God. He has told us how we can come to know Him and have a happy place in heaven after we die, or go to an unhappy place of torment if we do not believe on Him. He wants us to believe BEFORE we see, because He is simply telling the truth. He said, “Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed” (John 20:2929Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed. (John 20:29)). Jesus said He is THE TRUTH (John 14:66Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. (John 14:6)). He could never tell a lie. How important it is that we believe every word He says in the Bible, because, like the missionary, He is telling only what He has seen and known, because He is the Son of God who came from heaven. He warns, “He that [believes] on Him [Jesus] is not condemned: but he that [believes] not is condemned already, because he [has] not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God” (John 3:1818He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. (John 3:18)).
Do you believe what Jesus has said?
Messages of God’s Love 12/7/2025